Thread: Under Way, Not Making Way, Aground and Not Under Command, revisited
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Default Under Way, Not Making Way, Aground and Not Under Command, revisited
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 17:07:56 GMT, (Richard
Casady) wrote:

As you would have it, an abandoned boat is under command unless it is
also disabled. Interesting concept.

Didn't say that. My post came directly from the COLREGS, not
something I made up. For any boat to be officially treated as NUC it
must be displaying NUC signals or otherwise making it known. Unless
the signals went up before abandonment, how would anyone know what the
status was? It is important to remember that you must do everything
possible to avoid a collision, keep a proper lookout, maintain a safe
speed, avoid close quarters situations, etc. All of those apply
regardless of the official status of an abandoned boat. It's not
really relevant.

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