---
kind: "section"
citation: "33 C.F.R. § 163.20"
title: "33"
number: "163.20"
heading: "Bunching of tows."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/33/163.20"
---

# §163.20. Bunching of tows.

- (a) **In all cases where tows can be bunched, it should be done.**
- (b) Tows navigating in the North and East Rivers of New York must be bunched above a line drawn between Robbins Reef Light and Owls Head, Brooklyn, but the quarantine anchorage and the north entrance to Ambrose Channel shall be avoided in the process of bunching tows.
- (c) Tows must be bunched above the mouth of the Schuylkill River, Pa.

## Notes

### Amendments

[CGFR 60-61, 25 FR 9045, Sept. 21, 1960, as amended by CGFR 64-21, 29 FR 5733, Apr. 30, 1964. Redesignated by CGD 81-017, 46 FR 28154, May 26, 1981]

### Authority

Authority: 33 U.S.C. 152, 2071; 49 CFR l.46(n).

### Amendments

[CGFR 60-61, 25 FR 9045, Sept. 21, 1960, as amended by CGFR 64-21, 29 FR 5733, Apr. 30, 1964. Redesignated by CGD 81-017, 46 FR 28154, May 26, 1981]