Depending on how and where you are thinking of anchoring, the navigation rules place certain requirements on you. There are also light and sound signals required of a vessel aground.
[Ocean Navigator, 24 June 2003]
Short poems and pneumonic devices for remembering the configuration of navigation lights, e.g. Red over Red, the Captain is Dead (Vessel not under command).
[BoatSafe.com, USA]
Short poems and pneumonic devices for remembering the configuration of navigation lights, e.g. Red over Red, the Captain is Dead (Vessel not under command).
[BoatSafe.com, USA]
A good summary of the COLREGS requirements for lights, sound signals, and right-of-way rulse, as well as some navigation forumlas. And for those of us who want to memorize all of these, here are catchphrases to jog the memory.
[Geoff Kuenning, Claremont, CA, USA]
The entire International Navigation Rules and U.S. Inland Navigation Rules.
[Thomas Reed Publications, Inc., Boston, MA, UK]
An authoritative navigational resource for voyage planning and reference underway. Includes detailed sections on navigation, weather, safety, communications, etc. Six editions cover the UK, N. America, and the Caribbean.
[Thomas Reed Publications, Inc., Boston, MA, UK]
Plastic laminated cards containing rules, tips and instructions for following the Navigation Rules. Also other cards for seamanship, troubleshooting, and other matters.
[Davis Instruments Corp., Hayward, CA, USA]
The school offers classroom, home study, and on-line training courses and sales of books, manuals, navigation software, celestial navigation calculators, work forms, starfinders, and other tools.,
[Starpath School of Navigation, Seattle, WA, USA]
Wide range of sailing instruction, including on-the-water sailing and offshore cruising classes. Courses include Rules of the Road I and II..
[School of Sailing & Seamanship, Newport Beach, CA, USA]
Software for teaching the COLREGS (Navigation Rules and Aids to Navigation). Designed for classroom teaching, but available for home use.
[Gateway Multimedia, Inc., USA]