ROR Situation based Question
The below image shows:
1 – you in a power driven pleasure craft.
2 – power driven canoe on a duck-hunting expedition. It is making way, and on a steady bearing.
Q.1) Which is the give-way vessel?
Ans. The power driven canoe (2) is the give-way vessel: the ducks will have to wait a moment longer.
Q.2) In what way is the give-way vessel most likely to alter?
Ans. You would expect him to make a bold alteration of course to starboard.
Q.3) What sound signal must the give-way vessel make as he makes this alteration (assuming that the vessels are in sight of each other)?
Ans. One short blast – the manoeuvring sound signal for altering course to starboard.
