- When under sail, vessels are to keep in the centre of the channel. When being tracked vessels are, practicable, to keep to starboard or right side of the channel. Vessels meeting in a canal, except when one vessel overtakes another, the former must pass on the left. Vessels, one of which is sailing and the other steaming meeting in a canal, the sailing vessel to keep to the leeward. A steamer passing any vessel is bound to go at a speed not greater than half speed.
