RULE OF THE ROAD

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(d) When both are running free, with the wind on the same side,
the vessel which is to windward shall keep out of the way of
the vessel which is to leeward.

(e) A vessel which has the wind aft shall keep out of the way of
the other vessel.

Fig 4.—Rule of the Road.
Suppose you are practising boat sailing in a harbour with several
other sailing craft tacking, gybing and manoeuvring about, crossing
and re-crossing ahead of each other, and let us imagine ourselves to take
a trick at the tiller of each of the five boats in turn as shown in
Kgure 4. The boats are proceeding in the direction they are heading,
the wind is West blowing across the page from left to right as in<Jfeated