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Navigation lights keep you safe. Even on the lightest nights


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Rules Of The Road
Colregs
Colregs are the collision regulations that keep us from running into each other at sea, sometime called the rules of the road. At night we need lights aboard our vessels, in configurations laid down by the regulations to help us when it gets dark or gloomy.
Quiz
So if you are on watch on a dark night, you look out to sea and see this light configuration, what does it tell us?
The Answer Is
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Navigation Lights

What does this light configuration indicate? Hover or click to find out.
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