According to NH regulations, you are required to stop or reverse to avoid a collision. It's NH shorthand for this Coast Guard rule:
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Every vessel shall at all times proceed at a safe speed so that she can take proper and effective action to avoid collision and be stopped within a distance appropriate to the prevailing circumstances and conditions.
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Since you were the give-way boat, you should have already prepared for that circumstance. Since she fell off plane at 175' from shore, she was comfortably right with reference to the shoreline. By "correcting your path", you didn't consider stopping or reversing?
Rattlesnake Guy wrote:
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I admit that I was not paying attention to the boats that were moving quickly around the open water and did not yield to the boat that came to shore just as I was passing her dock. I am not sure how much I could have corrected my path at the speed I was traveling relative to hers.
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