When boats are rounding a mark on the same required side, even when one or both of them may be making a very wide rounding, they are sailing on the same leg.
After the starting signal, a boat that passes the wrong side of a mark is not on the same leg of the course as a boat that is passing the mark on the required side.
Question 1
Y and B are approaching a windward mark to be left to starboard. Y is clear ahead when she enters the zone. B leaves the mark to port. Y passes head to wind, but cannot bear away to a close-hauled course because of the presence of B. Y protests. What should the call be?
Answer 1
Penalize both, B for breaking rule 24.2 and Y for breaking rule 13. When rule 24 applies, the rules of Section A continue to apply.
Y has already passed the mark and is on the leg to the next mark. B still needs to sail to the required side of this mark, to continue to sail the course. Therefore, they are on different legs of the course.
Question 2
Y has rounded the mark and is on the next leg. B is rounding the mark. Rule 17 does not apply to Y. Y luffs above her proper course to slow B. B protests. What should the call be?
Answer 2
No penalty.
As both boats are sailing toward the next mark, they are on the same leg. Therefore, Y does not break rule 24.2.
When boats are rounding a mark on the same required side, even when one or both of them may be making a very wide rounding, they are sailing on the same leg.
After the starting signal, a boat that passes the wrong side of a mark is not on the same leg of the course as a boat that is passing the mark on the required side.