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• Mark-Room and Room to Pass an Obstruction who wins.
  Great thread – especially for me in training (and of course we have not really been presented with sufficient evidence for even ‘on balance of probabilities’ bar). Scenario - putting oneself as the skipper-helm on PE (couple of F40 boats for arguments sake): seeing that SR is doing the rounding properly and RoW  (an annual Xmas event: a purposeful ‘thread through eye of needle ‘gate’ – two full boat lengths wide = tightish but doable and not so out of the ordinary), so we tweak sails-deaccelerate a bit and just follow  SR’s tail around (not luff though, as we want to later power-on and get the jump on SR out on the other side of the gate maneuvering) – no RRS breaches so far. Noting though that: in the race before, the previous skipper-helm on PE just had a young trainee crew aboard, and erring on the side of caution and safety - they decided to just veer off from the gate and go around the Xmas tree on port rail – good call but not a matter to, perhaps cheekily (what racing sailor would ever dream of doing  this 😊), then lodge a protest over their own actions (invalid).
  
  

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  John Quirk Today 03:05
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  Catalan Benaros Yesterday 02:13
• Does a competitor "see the incident" if they see it on a video?
  Thanks Ben....
  John Quirk Wed 04:07
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  John Quirk Wed 01:20
• Class breaks in handicap racing
  Yes David, in that scenario would be for sure. I just use the rough 50-50 average here to mentor the young lads (ie don't hide behind it or throw in the towel just becasue of one's handicap) - and inside the boat 50% is the boat itself + 'technology developments' (getting a flying jib or something or rather) by owner, skipper and crew, to gain advantge over competitiors (handicap affect gets a lot less)
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