1. 2025-2028
  2. Rx: None

Case 141
Part 2, Preamble
Rule 36, Races Restarted or Resailed
Rule 44.1(b), Penalties at the Time of an Incident: Taking a Penalty
Rule 60.2(c) Protests: Intention to Protest
Rule 60.4(c)(1), Protests: Protest Validity
Rule 63.4(a)(2), Conduct of Hearings: Hearing Procedure
Interpretation of the term ‘serious’ in the phrase ‘serious  damage’.
Case 142
 Deleted
Reasons for deleting Case 142: This case is no longer correct and also no longer necessary because of the new wording of rule 62.1(b) in the 2021 RRS.
Case 143
Rule 6.1, World Sailing Regulations 
Rule 70, Appeals and Requests to a National Authority
 Rule 75, Entering a Race
 Rule 89.1, Organizing Authority; Notice of Race; Appointment of Race Officials: Organizing Authority 
 When the organizing authority for a race is not an organization specified in rule 89.1, a party to a hearing does not have access to the appeal process. 
Case 144
Withdrawn for Revision
Reasons for withdrawing Case 144: The Case Book Working Party found it difficult to interpret how the new last sentence of rule 18.1 applies to the incident described in this case. Whatever interpretation the working party makes of this new sentence should be discussed and approved by the World Sailing Racing Rules Committee.
Case 145
Definitions, Sail the Course
Rule 28.1, Sailing the Race
A boat’s string, described in the definition Sail the Course, when drawn taut, is only constrained by the marks that begin, end or bound each leg of the course.
Case 146
Definitions, Room
Rule 11, On the Same Tack, Overlapped
Rule 16.1, Changing Course
Part 2, Section C Preamble
Rule 43.1(a), Exoneration
Rule 43.1(b), Exoneration
When boats are approaching a starting mark to start and a leeward boat luffs, the windward boat is exonerated by rule 43.1(b) if she breaks rule 11 while sailing within the room to which she is entitled under rule 16.1.
Case 147
Rule 10, On Opposite Tacks 
Rule 1616, Changing Course 
Rule 43.1(b), Exoneration 
When a right-of-way boat changes course, her obligation to give a keep-clear boat room to keep clear under rule 16.1 begins. The right-of-way boat may give that room by making an additional change of course. If, while the right-of-way boat is making that additional change of course, the keep-clear boat unavoidably breaks a rule of Part 2 Section A, the keep-clear boat is exonerated by rule 43.1(b).
Case 148
Definition, Finish
Definition, Sail the Course
Rule 28.1, Sailing the Race
Rule 60.2(b)(2), Protests: Intention to Protest
When a boat crosses the finishing line from the course side twice, her second crossing constitutes her finish if, at all times between her first and second crossing, her actions are consistent with continuing ‘to sail the course’. An error in sailing the course made at a mark other than a finishing mark is not an error made at the finishing line.
Case 149
Rule 21.2, Starting Errors; Taking Penalties; Backing a Sail 
Rule 23.2, Interfering with Another Boat
Rule 44.2, Penalties at the Time of an Incident: One-Turn and TwoTurns Penalties 
After getting well clear, a boat making penalty turns that interrupts her turns for just the time she needs to comply with rule 21.2 has made her penalty turns ‘promptly’. When a boat interferes with a boat taking a penalty, she breaks rule 23.2 if she was not sailing her proper course at that time. 
Case 150
Definition, Clear Astern and Clear Ahead; Overlap
Rule 19.1, Room to Pass an Obstruction: When Rule 19 Applies
Rule 19.2, Room to Pass an Obstruction: Giving Room at an Obstruction 
An interpretation of the terms ‘at’, ‘inside/outside’ and ‘overlap’ as used in rule 19. 
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