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Fast Craft and the COLREGS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 1998

A. T. C. Millns
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I understand that The Netherlands are pressing the IMO to change the COLREGS so that high speed craft (HSC) have the obligation of keeping out of the way of other vessels.

There is an IMO definition of high speed craft which was adopted by resolution MSC 36(63) in May 1995. It is the International Code of Safety for High Speed Craft. It covers vessels on international routes but does not cover, for instance, warships, troopships, fishing and pleasure craft. However, for the purpose of the COLREGS, I am sure that this definition should be widened and then incorporated.

I agree with many of the points in Mr R. D. Pike's article printed in this Journal in May 1997.

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High Speed CraftSafetyColregs

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The Journal of Navigation , Volume 51 , Issue 3 , September 1998, pp. 430 - 444
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© 1998 The Royal Institute of Navigation