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Blue board

Travelling downstream, you see the prescribed blue-board meeting indication on an upstream vessel's starboard side. What must you avoid?

Short answer

Treating it as unconditional priority or beginning a starboard-to-starboard pass before the full indication, response and water agree

The display communicates a specific upstream offer and downstream response for a starboard-to-starboard meeting; it does not create priority or safe water. Speaker, side, response and scope must remain intact. Revisit The Blue-Board Meeting Exception.

Quick check

Travelling downstream, you see the prescribed blue-board meeting indication on an upstream vessel's starboard side. What must you avoid?