For anyone who owns a boat, this is the handbook for you. Included are all of the official government rules and regulations that must be followed by anyone out on the water. This book will prepare you for head?on situations, avoiding collisions, using, distress signals, and will inform you of all the up?to?date water regulations. Whether you?re in a jam or just relaxing at sea, Navigation Rules will teach and prepare you for anything and everything you may encounter while on your boat.

Contains the International Regulations for Prevention of Collisions at Sea, 1972, the Inland Navigation Rules which were enacted by law on Dec. 24, 1980, and all amendments and revisions which have been adopted since 1983. The side-by-side presentation of the Rules allows the user to determine the differences between the International and Inland Rules. Also includes lines of demarcation, penalty provisions, alternative compliance procedures, waters upon which the rules apply, vessel to bridge radiotelephone regulations, legal citations, and a conversion table from metric measure to U.S. Customary/Imperial units. Illustrated.