INLAND ONLY Two power-driven vessels are meeting in the situation as shown in illustration D037RR below and will pass within 1/2 mile of each other. What does two short blasts from either vessel mean?

Correct Answer: Option A — "I intend to leave you on my starboard side."

Inland Rule 34(a) specifies that two short blasts indicate an intention to leave the other vessel on the starboard side. This signal is used when vessels are meeting and intend to pass starboard-to-starboard, deviating from the standard port-to-port passing arrangement.