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Definitions, Continuing Obstructionr
Definitions, Keep Clear
Definitions, Obstruction
Rule 12, On the Same Tack, Not Overlapped
Rule 14, Avoiding Contact
Rule 19, Room to Pass an Obstruction
Rule 43, Exoneration
A boat clear astern that is required to keep clear but collides with the boat clear ahead breaks the right-of-way rule that was applicable before the collision occurred. A boat that loses right of way by unintentionally changing tack is nevertheless required to keep clear.
Sportsmanship and the Rules
Rule 2, Fair Sailing
Rule 26, Starting Races
Rule 29.1, Recalls: Individual Recall
Rule 61.4(b)(1), Redress: Redress Decisions
Rule 61.4(c), Redress: Redress Decisions
Race Signals: Recall Signals X
When the correct visual recall signal for individual recall is made but the required sound signal is not, and when a recalled boat in a position to hear a sound signal does not see the visual signal and does not return, she is entitled to redress. However, if she realizes she is on the course side of the line she must return and start correctly.
Definitions Finish, Finish
Rule 90.2(c), Race Committee; Sailing Instructions; Scoring: Sailing Instructions
A competitor is entitled to look exclusively to the notice of race or to written sailing instructions for all details relating to sailing the course. If the race committee wants to change the direction in which boats are required to cross the finishing line to finish, this must be stated in the sailing instructions. When a boat fails to finish correctly because of a race committee error, but none of the boats racing gains or loses as a result, an appropriate and fair form of redress is to score all the boats in the order they crossed the finishing line.
Rule 19.2(b), Room to Pass an Obstruction: Giving Room at an Obstruction
Rule 20.1, Room to Tack at an Obstruction: Hailing
Rule 20.2, Room to Tack at an Obstruction: Responding
When a boat approaching an obstruction hails ‘Room to tack’, but does so before the time when she needs to begin the process described in rule 20 to avoid the obstruction safely, she breaks rule 20.1(a). However, even if the hail breaks rule 20.1(a), the hailed boat must respond. An inside overlapped boat is entitled to room between the outside boat and an obstruction under rule 19.2(b) even though she has tacked into the inside overlapping position.
Rule 2, Fair Sailing
Rule 61.4(b)(5), Redress: Redress Decisions
Rule 69.2, Misconduct: Action by a Protest Committee
Hindering another boat may be a breach of rule 2 and the basis for granting redress and for action under rule 69.2.
Definitions, Room
Rule 20.2(c), Room to Tack at an Obstruction: Responding
When a boat hails ‘Room to tack’ at an obstruction and the hailed boat replies ‘You tack’, and the hailing boat is then able to tack and avoid the hailed boat in a seamanlike way, the hailed boat has complied with rule 20.2(c).
Rule 49.2, Crew Position; Lifelines
Positioning of crew members relative to lifelines.
Rule 32.1(d), Shortening or Abandoning After the Start
Rule 61.4(b)(1), Redress: Redress Decisions
Each race of a regatta is a separate race; in a multi-class regatta, abandonment may be suitable for some classes, but not for all.
The International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (IRPCAS) are intended to ensure the safety of vessels at sea by precluding situations that might lead to collisions. When the IRPCAS right-of-way rules replace the rules of Part 2, they effectively prohibit a right-of-way boat from changing course towards the boat obligated to keep clear when she is close to that boat.
Sportsmanship and the Rules
Rule 60.1, Protests: Right to Protest
A race committee is not required to protest a boat. The primary responsibility for enforcing the rules lies with the competitors.
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