As the leeward, overlapped right-of-way boat (Rule 11), America One has every right to change course, so long as it gave the other boat room to keep clear (Rule 16), which it did.
Lastly, large speed-restrictive bridges populate Acela's path, and since federal regulations give boats absolute right-of-way, pleasure boats often give Acela reason to apply the brakes.
With the right sort of boat and a little practice, rowing makes paddling seem an awkward, make-do sort of propulsion and an outboard motor an insult to elegance.
The longstanding rule granting the right-of-way to boats on starboard tack, or with the wind coming over their right side, has been scrapped in favor of a rule more akin to Formula One racing, in which the advantage lies with the inside boat.
Tokyo has protested to Russia over the granting of fishing rights to boats from South Korea, North Korea and the Ukraine in waters around the Kurile Islands, which are called the Northern Territories in Japan.
The exercise would have been grist to the mill of A.P.Herbert, whose book Misleading Cases specialised in legal oddities such as the right of way between boats and cars on partially-flooded roads beside the river Thames.
The following days were spent exchanging cables with his agent and the press, during which he was bombarded with news of syndication rights, a welcoming fleet of boats and helicopters, and a rapturous welcome by the British people.
We've got the right of way, but sometimes boats can't see kayaks and we paddle furiously toward shore.
His group first drew attention with its yearly flotilla, a contingent of boats that pressed right up to Cuban waters.
Boat traffic — tug boats, barges and crew boats — have the right of way.
