Overtaking on the other vessel's starboard side

Who sounds it

Power-driven vessel intending to overtake another power-driven vessel, in sight.

How it's sounded

Worth remembering

Inland overtaking signals apply whenever in sight, not only in a narrow channel.

The same sound elsewhere

These use the same pattern, so the rules you’re under and the situation decide what it means.

• Altering course to starboardInternationalone short blast
• Proposing a port-to-port passInlandone short blast
• Agreeing to a port-to-port passInlandone short blast
• Agreeing to be overtaken on your starboard sideInlandone short blast

More in overtaking

• Overtaking on the other vessel's starboard sideInternationaltwo prolonged blasts, then one short blast
• Overtaking on the other vessel's port sideInternationaltwo prolonged blasts, then two short blasts
• Agreeing to be overtakenInternationalone prolonged blast, then one short blast, then one prolonged blast, then one short blast
• Overtaking on the other vessel's port sideInlandtwo short blasts
• Agreeing to be overtaken on your port sideInlandtwo short blasts

Study more

See every sound signal, try the free Rules of the Road practice test, or read who gives way, and how Inland differs.