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lookout may thereby fail to do everything reasonably
possible to avoid contact. Hailing is one way that a boat
may ‘act to avoid contact’. When a boat’s breach of a rule
of Part 2 causes serious damage and she then retires, she

has taken the applicable penalty and is not to be
disqualified for that breach.

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