Evinrude 4906B 4HP 1969 Owner's Manual page 25

1-20 SAFETY
Waterway Rules
On the water, certain basic safe-operat-
ing practices must be followed.
learn and practice them, for to know, is to
be able to handle your boat with confidence
and safety. Knowledge of what to do, and
not do, will add a great deal to the enjoy-
ment you will receive
investment.
Rules of the Road
The best advice
Guard requirement for boats over 39' 4" (12
meters) since 1981, is to obtain an official
copy of the "Rules of the Road",
includes Inland Waterways, Western Rivers,
and the Great Lakes for study and ready
reference.
The following two paragraphs
VER Y brief condensed and abbreviated
MODIFICATIONS:
be green with green lights. All starboard
hand aids will have red lights.
You should
from your boating
possible and a Coast
which
give a
Port hand aids will
almost a synopsis of the rules and should not
be considered in any way as covering
entire subject.
Powered boats must yield the right-of-
way to all boats without
when being overtaken.
other boat head-on, keep to starboard,
less you are too far to port to make this
practical. When overtaking
the right-of-way belongs to the boat being
overtaken. If your boat
must maintain course and speed.
When two boats approach at an angle and
there is danger of collision, the boat to port
must give way to the boat
Always keep to starboard in a narrow chan-
nel or canal. Boats underway
clear of vessels fishing with nets, lines, or
trawls. (Fishing boats are not allowed to
fish in channels or to obstruct navigation.)
MODIFICATIONS:
black. Light rhythm will be changed to
Composite Gp Fl (2
the
motors, except
When meeting an-
un-
another boat,
is being passed, you
to starboard.
must stay
Green will replace
+
1).