ABSTRACT
A recent paper (John Wilde Crosbie, 2009) contained an examination of the development of the COLREGS from the early 19th century to the present day. This led to him to conclude that the current form of the COLREGS is over-complicated and unsuited to present day conditions. Also that they should be replaced by a much simpler convention based on proposals by Commander, later Vice-Admiral, P.H. Colomb of the UK Royal Navy in the late 1800s (Colomb, 1866, 1885). This is referred to in the following sections as the Colomb/Crosbie proposal, and some of its implications are considered in this paper.
