• Series scoring with entries that did not sail
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  David Arty Sat 22:05
• Giving mark room
  12 Comments
  Ólafur Bjarnason Sat 20:36
• US Appeal 130 - Interpretations of Mark Room (Hot off the presses!)
  11 Comments
  Angelo Guarino Fri 11:31
• Room at halfwind Mark - 3 boat cluster rounding
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  Gijs Vlas Wed 11:27
• Appeals - Reduction in times for submitting and responding to Appeals
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  John Allan Wed 00:59

• Some hypotheticals about the new Room to Tack hailing requirement
  IMO, that's a gross mis-read of the new rule, which puts "room to tack" in quotes the same way as the other two required hails. The option is whether to hail, not how to hail. How to hail is literally spelled out:

  20.1. Hailing
  A boat may hail for room to tack and avoid a boat on the same tack by hailing 'Room to tack'.

  There's no other way to hail. There's no other way to tack without breaking RRS 13.
  Niko Kotsatos Today 14:05
• Giving mark room
  I disagree. Mark-room includes 

  Room for a boat
  (a) to sail to the mark when her proper course is to sail close to it

  Yellow doesn't begin doing that until the last minute. There is a case which I can't find that offers a more-or-less direct corridor to the mark. Yellow fails to do that.
  
  John Ball says it clearly in the post below.
  (Note, my comments will all make more sense if you use the new "Nested view")
  

  

  Niko Kotsatos Today 13:35
• US Appeal 130 - Interpretations of Mark Room (Hot off the presses!)
  If b is clear astern anywhere she does not have mark room so the exact place is not relevant.
  Initially the boats may be on separate tacks so 18 does not apply.
  When tacking the boat is subject to 13, there is one exoneration. The idea is you place your boat so you may hover and get clear of the other boat so not break 13.
  If you leave an inside lane or make an otherwise wide rounding, you lose the advantage the rule gave you.
  I cannot give a positive response to your question. What I can say is that if she makes a good rounding with no boat inside her if she exercises her mark room rights to go health wind, and she hovers there gaining separation from the following boat, she should be fine.
  Michael Butterfield Today 10:29
• Series scoring with entries that did not sail
  I think one way to answer this question is to ask yourself how you would score Boat B for the first 8 races when computing her series score.  It doesn't make sense to score her as DNC where she is not included.  While you can do lots of different things next time. the question is how to score this series.  Boat B is entered in the series, so she counts for the DNCs per the NoR.
  John Christman Today 01:33
• Thumbs gone, Wind Tips are here
  Here it is ... it appears in the first comment.
  
  Thanks Paul!
  
  

  

  Angelo Guarino Fri 12:22

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