Col Regs

New Zealand looks more appropriate:

https://www.maritimenz.govt.nz/recreational/rules/default.asp#safe_speed

it was lost some years ago…about the time the EL FARO went down

anyway the great, grand and glorious US Navee knows all about COLREGS so our dear darling OP needs to ask them

I saw this happen as a midshipman. A volunteer reserve officer (wavy Navy and a lawyer in real life) was OOW and I was junior. He said to the leading signalman that there was a ship signaling to us. I went to open my mouth, I was fixing the ship, and the signalman gave me a wink and marched smartly out to bridge wing and clattered away with the signal projected.
On his return to the bridge the officer asked him what the ship had said and he replied “I’m a lighthouse Sir!”

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