Question 46Navigation General70% to pass
While steaming on course 280°T, you sight a buoy showing a very quick flashing (VQ) white light well to port. Maintaining course, you sight another buoy showing a quick flashing (Q) white light. How should you pass?
AI Explanation
The correct answer is B) north of the buoy.
When you sight a buoy with a very quick flashing (VQ) white light, it indicates that the buoy is on the starboard side of the channel. Similarly, a buoy with a quick flashing (Q) white light is on the port side of the channel. Therefore, to pass safely, you should navigate north of the buoys, keeping them to your port side.
The other options are incorrect because passing east or west of the buoys would take you outside the marked channel, and passing south of the buoys would mean you are on the wrong side of the channel, which could be dangerous.
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