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• Mark-Room and Room to Pass an Obstruction who wins.
  I agree Ben - I was pleased to see your comment on the ‘obstruction only at one boat length’.  This seemed to me to be an attempt to resolve something by using a concept used in a definition to decide what is and is not an obstruction in a way that was not intended.  An object that requires a substantial alteration of course when a boat is one boat length away is always an obstruction.  It is always there.  It is not a Schroedinger’s obstruction that is only ‘measured’ when a boat is a boat length away.
  
  It’s currently unresolvable (although I think that there is something in Jim’s point about leaving both to port!)
  
  Interestingly I have been in this situation as  Leeward Inside dinghy approaching a windward mark where there was a Schroedinger’s obstruction - a barge that had missed stays and was drifting down onto the mark…..unclear whether there would or would not be room for both boats  to pass between it and the mark.  I tacked out.
  Matt Sargent Today 09:00
• Appointment of an Investigator
  That’s fair enough too of course thanks Jim…
  
  

  On your final point, as I read it - STEPS: 1. PC (shall have at least three members) considers allegation of a breach of rule 69.1(a) (PC shall consider & decide whether or not to call a hearing). 2. in considering, if PC needs more information for the decision to call a hearing, it shall consider appointing a person or persons to conduct an investigation (investigator s) produce ‘a report’ of sorts for PC, and shall be disclosed to the PC for their considerations), 3. Hearing Decided (a Rule 69 hearing shall not be combined with any other type of hearing): if the protest committee decides to call a hearing, all relevant information gathered by the investigator, favourable or unfavorable, shall also be disclosed to the parties.
  John Quirk Wed 08:33
• Rule 55.2 One Spinnaker Pole or Two?
  The Hystericals play their own game though. Didn't they eschew RRS for a long time? A class can permit poling out spinnaker clews in Class Rules/SIs if it so desires.
  But I think the innovation about Buckland/Bethwaite's kites was not the concept of an asymmettric sail on a pole, which was common enough, but that it was a sail set on a bowsprit with a loose luff like a spinnaker, not a taut luff like the old school sails tended to be.
  Jim Champ Sun 16:10
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