Re: Revised COLREGS bell requirements

State regs will often replicate Fed, e.g. in Oregon the 'bell' is
called out as required equipment ala what COLREGS were (or are for a
little while longer :-)

(Note that at least in Oregon, no usage rules, just you need to have
one.)

Might take a while for states to catch up.  So.......

-al-


On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 18:10:51 GMT, otnmbrd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>  The "Inland Rules" would govern. Since the Inland rules are trying to 
>mirror the International closely and considering the reasoning for the 
>change (vessel size), I would bet that once they create the inserts to 
>correct your rules book, you will find this applying to both 
>international and inland.
>
>Len Krauss wrote:
>> Looks like that revision was effective only as of Nov 2003.
>> 
>> Question now is what are the regs inward of COLREGS demarkations?
>> I think state or Army Corps regs govern. Local water smokies could catch us
>> on a technicality.
>> 
>> Len
>> 
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