Rule 1 (a) is quite clear: the Colregs apply to all vessels. But what is a vessel? Rule 3 (a) says that a vessel is, ‘every description of watercraft capable of being used as a means of transportation on water’. That seems abundantly clear to me, but some years ago a court rather bizarrely ruled that personal watercraft (PWCs) were not ‘vessels’. I’m glad to say
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Feb 29, 2024
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