United States Coast Pilot: Pacific Coast. California, Oregon, and WashingtonU.S. Government Printing Office, 1926 - Pilot guides |
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1½ mile anchor anchorage Astoria bell buoy bight blast bluffs boats buoy Cape Flattery Cape Mendocino channel chart clear weather cliffs coast Columbia River Coos Bay cove curve direction distance dredged eastern shore eclipse entrance extends fathoms feet fog signal harbor head Humboldt Bay Island islet jetty kelp land least depth Lighthouse located lower low water lumber marked by kelp mean lower low mile offshore miles eastward miles long miles northward miles northwestward mouth navigation north point northern northwest northwesterly pilot Point Arena Point Arguello Point San port prominent Punta Gorda radio Reef rock lies rocky San Francisco sand beach sand dunes Santa seaward seconds ship shoal side Sound southern southward steamers Strait sunken rock thick weather tide Trinidad Head true NW velocity visible ward western end western point westward wharf wharves whistling buoy white light width Willapa Bay winds yards offshore
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Page 305 - Nothing in these rules shall exonerate any ship, or the owner, or master, or crew thereof, from the consequences of any neglect to carry lights or signals, or of any neglect to keep a proper look.out, or of the neglect of any precaution which may be required by the ordinary practice of seamen, or by the special circumstances of the case.
Page 298 - ... no subsequent alteration of the bearing between the two vessels shall make the overtaking vessel a crossing vessel within the meaning of these rules, or relieve her of the duty of keeping clear of the overtaken vessel until she is finally past and clear.
Page 298 - This article only applies to cases where vessels are meeting end on, or nearly end on, in such a manner as to involve risk of collision...
Page 300 - On the port side a red light so constructed as to show an unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of ten points of the compass, so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to two points abaft the beam on...
Page 305 - ... so constructed as to show a uniform and unbroken light over an arc of the horizon of 10 points of the compass, and so fixed as to throw the light from right ahead to 2 points abaft the beam on their respective sides.
Page 292 - ... points abaft the beam on the starboard side, and of such a character as to be visible at a distance of at least two miles.
Page 296 - ... light, in a lantern so constructed as to show a clear, uniform, and unbroken light visible all around the horizon at a distance of at least 1 mile.
Page 297 - When two sailing vessels are approaching one another, so as to involve risk of collision, one of them shall keep out of the way of the other, as follows, viz.
Page 301 - Whenever, as in the case of small vessels under way during bad weather, the green and red side lights cannot be fixed, these lights shall be kept at hand lighted and ready for use; and shall, on the approach of or to other vessels, be exhibited on their respective sides in sufficient time to prevent collision, in such manner as to make them most visible, and so that the green light shall not be seen on the port side nor the red light on the starboard side, nor, if practicable, more than 2 points...
Page 304 - Every vessel coming up with another vessel from any direction more than two points abaft her beam — that is, in such a position, with reference to the vessel which she is overtaking that at night she would be unable to see either of that vessel's side lights — shall be deemed to be an overtaking vessel...