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    Part C, Lights and shapes

    Rule 25, Sailing vessels underway and vessels under oars

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    Sailing vessels underway show sidelights and a sternlight; small vessels may combine these in a tricolour at the masthead. A sailing vessel also under power must show the cone, point down, by day.

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