🔍 Key Concepts

• Rule 13 – Overtaking of the Navigation Rules • The definitions of stand-on vessel and give-way vessel • How an overtaking situation is treated compared to crossing or head-on situations

💭 Think About

• Ask yourself: in an overtaking situation, which vessel is responsible for keeping clear, regardless of which side the approach is from? • Consider whether the overtaken vessel has any obligation to maintain course and speed in this specific rule, or if that wording belongs to another situation (like crossing). • Think: does Rule 13 ever say that there is no stand-on vessel, or does it clearly assign one vessel as the give-way vessel?

✅ Before You Answer

• Re-read Rule 13(a)-(d) and underline who "shall keep out of the way" in all overtaking cases. • Verify whether the overtaking vessel can ever become the stand-on vessel while it is still in the overtaking position (within 22.5° abaft the beam). • Check if any option is confusing Rule 13 (Overtaking) with Rule 17 (Action by Stand-on Vessel) or Rule 16 (Action by Give-way Vessel).