A steam vessel navigating a narrow channel shall, whenever it is safe and practicable, keep to that side of the fairway or mid-channel which lies on its starboard side, and a steam vessel when passing another in such a channel, shall always leave the other upon the port side.
Cal. Harb. & Nav. Code § 283
Navigation Rules
Enacted by Stats. 1937, Ch. 368.
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