Question 35 Rules of the Road

The correct answer is B) A sailing vessel overtaking another is the give-way vessel. This is correct because the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (COLREGS) state that a sailing vessel overtaking another sailing vessel must keep out of the way of the vessel being overtaken. The vessel being overtaken has the right-of-way. The other options are incorrect: A) When each is on a different tack, the vessel on the starboard tack has the right-of-way, not the vessel on the starboard tack. C) A sailing vessel seeing another to leeward must take action to avoid collision, not hold its course.