Making Sense of COLREGs Lights and Shapes

Learning the basics of colregs lights and shapes is usually fault boating that makes everyone's eyes glaze over until they're actually from a dark channel at 3 AM. It's one thing to check out a diagram inside a textbook, but it's a whole different story when you're looking at a cluster of flickering lights on the horizon and trying to figure out if that's a massive container ship or just an extremely confused fisherman. ...

March 24, 2026 · 7 min · Zachary Vlastimil