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    Additional sound signals for electric boats?

    I liked it because of what else he said.
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    Additional sound signals for electric boats?

    They are all boat questions.
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    Additional sound signals for electric boats?

    Some electric cars don't just have horns, they have additional sounds to warn pedestrians. Such are even required in the E.U and the U.S. Currently it is but might that change as it already has for road vehicles? But aren't boats also permitted to carry additional sound producing devices? In...
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    Additional sound signals for electric boats?

    I'm not particularly looking to argue and sailing vessels have different rules because of the directions they can go. For example, priority to the leeward over windward if both have the same tack and priority to starboard tack over port tack. So skippers whose vessels are power driven sound the...
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    Additional sound signals for electric boats?

    What? Sailing vessels have horns? I thought only powered vessels had to have operational horns.
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    Additional sound signals for electric boats?

    My understanding is that sailboats don't even have horns, or at least aren't required to have operational ones.
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    Additional sound signals for electric boats?

    Yes but apparently there are often responsible for being aware of vessels that are out of their sight. Isn't that why alternation of course and astern propulsion are signaled by horns or radio, not by exterior lights? I have seen a few videos of electric boats, with sound, and those electric...
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    Additional sound signals for electric boats?

    I know about the regulations but I was thinking of additional sound signals that are only permitted, not required might be a good idea for electric vessels. I.C or electrically powered road vehicles used to both simply be powered vehicles, this was when electric ones were less common and no...
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    Additional sound signals for electric boats?

    Think of it this way: If an internal combustion engine is powering the vessel, the engine sound indicates whether propulsion is operated or not, one can tell by ear. Sometimes when operating astern propulsion, an additional sound signal is needed to make it clear to other skippers and to...
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    Additional sound signals for electric boats?

    What sound signal signals non-powered boats and what does that mean?
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    Additional sound signals for electric boats?

    Do electric boaters need additional sound signals given how quiet electric boats often are? One who is operating a powered vessel may need to signal operating astern propulsion such as by three short blasts of the horn, so might it be useful for those operating electric boats to also signal...
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    Changing course

    I know there are rules about vessels altering course, such as the stand on vessel maintaining course and speed, and signalling ones intent to alter course and speed. First of all, is there any definition of changing course? Is a sailing vessel said to be changing course if it is changing...
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    What is minimal drift?

    A vessel of any kind will tend to drift unless anchored or moored, there can be no true stops on the water. A boat could hover in one place above a riverbed and still be propelled upstream and maintain steerage due to flow. So given all that what does minimal drift mean, though I do know that...
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    Eye lead time

    I gather that vision is your first line of defence when boating, in spite of the extensive use of those crazy horn signals. I have looked up eye lead time but haven't found it mentioned in relation to boating. Basically the minimum eye-lead time is the minimum distance you should be looking...
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    Steering ratio

    Does steering ratio (the angle of the rudder or jet to the angle of the steering wheel) vary between different vessels?
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