What should a sail boat do if it is going straight at a sail boat?

Answer 1

turn so it wont go into it

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Make a definite course correction to starboard large enough to be readily apparent to the other vessel who should also alter their course to starboard.

Whether under inland or international rules, power vessels must keep clear of sailing vessels in open waters. A sailboat with motor running is defined as a motor boat. The "pecking order" between sailing vessels is more complex. When two sailing are approaching one another so as to involve risk of collision, one of then shall keep out of the way of each other as follows:

• When each has the wind on a different side, the vessel which has the wind on the port side shall keep out of the way of the other.

• When both have the wind on the same side, the vessel which is to windward shall keep out of the way of the vessel which is to leeward.

• If a vessel with the wind on the port side sees a vessel to windward and cannot determine with certainty whether the other vessel has the wind on the port or the starboard side, she shall keep out of the way of the other.

• For the purposes of these rules the windward side shall be deemed to be the side opposite to that on which the mainsail is carried. On square-