4.1.9. Power driven vessels underway

4.1.9. Power driven vessels underway

                                                                    

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Rule 23 Power driven vessels underway

Rule 24 – Towing and pushing

Rule 25 – Sailing vessels underway and vessels under oars

Rule 26 Fishing vessels

a. A vessel engaged in fishing, whether underway or at anchor, shall exhibit only the lights and shapes prescribed in this rule.

b. A vessel when engaged in trawling by which is meant the dragging through the water of a dredge net or other apparatus used as a fishing appliance, shall exhibit.

i. Two all – round lights in a vertical line the upper being green and the lower white or a shape consisting of two cones with their apexes together in a vertical line one above the other.

ii. a masthead light abaft of and higher than the all-round green light, a vessel of less than 50 mts in length shall not obliged to exhibit such a light but may do so.

iii. When making way through the water in addition to the lights prescribed in this paragraph sidelights and a stern light.

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