There are also "rules of the road" for nautical traffic encounters, too. Nominally, a vessel to your right has the right-of-way (which in the oh-so-sophisticated playbook diagram above would be the SS Moonbat). However, it is also recognized that larger vessels are slower to react to steering and throttle inputs, so as a general rule in navigation the larger vessel has the right of way. Playing chicken with a flippin' warship when you're drivin' a fiberglass yacht is just plain dumb.