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    Part of the video series: How to Sail a Sailboat

    From Quick Guide: Sailing 101

    Summary: Learn tips on how to properly sail a boat in heavy water traffic with expert boating tips in this free video clip on sailing.

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    Steve Damm Instructor ASA 2006 Instructor of the YearSailing still gives Steve goosebumps. Whether sailing across the bay, doing deliveries from Oregon to Cabo San Lucas, or seeing a...read more

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    "The tugboat is coming at us. He's a powered vessel, but he's a larger commercial vessel, he's restricted to the channel, which is the red day mark that he now has to his starboard side and there's a green buoy that he has to his port side. So he's restricted to the channel. The rules for two boats under power is similar to driving your car. You just pass on similar sides and were going to just get out of his way because we don't need to be in the channel and he'll come by on our starboard side. Commercial traffic on the San Francisco Bay can be very heavy. There's a lot of the rules of the road that you need to learn before you get involved in sailing in an area with a lot of commercial traffic. We're like a car. We would just pass like you're driving a car. One person, you'd stay to the right and that's just the normal one. If we're a sail boat then there's another set of rules. There's a hierarchy. Whether you're restricted by draft or fishing or a sail boat or a power boat. There's a whole hierarchy of who has the right of way. In this case we're just like two cars driving and we just pass the the right or we just get completely get out of his way."

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