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  • Mike,
    Many thanks for this useful guide. I would suit is valid for other similar classes such as Europe and Topper?
    Today 20:50
  • Hey Mike .. just a bump-reminder to give us your thoughts. - Ang
    Yesterday 11:24
  • Warren .. found it.  I haven't visited it since 2021 so it is what it is.  Just to be clear, it was just a simple compilation of all the rules that we should check ..  to see if there was need of a change to those rules (if allowed by RRS 86). 

    Spreadsheet: Rules that use Start and the rules those rules touch

    There are 2 sheets .. one was based upon the terms .. the next was sorted by the rule.   Anyway .. it was just a WIP worksheet to get a scope of all the places we should look if an NOR/SI approach was used (as apposed to the WS DR). - Ang
    Tue 17:24
  • Rule J2.1 (4) requires the sailing instructions to state the order in which marks are to be passed and the side on which each is to be left. 

    Rule J2.1 (4) descriptions of marks, including starting and finishing marks, stating the order in which marks are to be passed and the side on which each is to be left and identifying all rounding marks (see the definition Sail the Course);

    In the diagram below:
    1. Green touches mark 2s and passes it to port .
    2. Yellow is the inside right-of-way boat and must gybe at mark 2p to sail her proper course to finish. Yellow sails a few boat lengths past the mark, gybes, rounds the mark and leaves it astern.

    The race committee has two courses A and B.
    • Course A   Start – 1 – 1A – 2p – Finish
    • Course B   Start – 1 – 1A – 2s/2p – Finish

    If course A was signaled. Mark 2s is not a mark that begins, bounds or ends the leg of the course and can be touched and passed on either side. Mark 2p is not a gate mark. 
    • Green does not break a rule.
    • Yellow breaks rule 18.4. 

    If course B was signaled. Mark 2s is a mark that begins, bounds or ends the leg of the course and cannot be touched and must passed to starboard. Rule 18.4 does not apply. Mark 2p is a gate mark.
    • Green breaks a rule 28.1 and rule 31.
    • Yellow does not break a rule. 
    Tue 15:03
  • Ben,

    1. I enclose an extract of relevant portion of Case 50.

    A starboard-tack boat in such circumstances need not hold her course so as to
    prove, by hitting the port-tack boat, that a collision was inevitable. Moreover, if
    she does so she will break rule 14.

    The fact that L took action to avoid collision at a time when W also initiated action implies there was an apprehension in the mind of L. W, as per me, took the action late.

    2.  Case 50 does not say anywhere that it can be applied to rule 11.
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