• Can a boat break RRS 2 while breaking RRS 23.1?
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  Angelo Guarino Today 11:40
• 2 questions on 18.3.
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  Nick Taylor Yesterday 16:41
• Class breaks in handicap racing
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  Jonah Zimmerman Fri 06:18
• Protest Standard of Proof and Evidence Bars
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  John Quirk 25-Dec-15 05:40
• Question of terminology when all boats do not race together
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  Gordon Davies 25-Dec-10 14:03

• 2 questions on 18.3.
  Niko,
  As long as a boat is able to pass a mark while remaining on the same tack, she is fetching the mark.  So she is able to go as far as head-to-wind, but not beyond, in order to pass the mark and still be considered fetching by definition.  Whether she is pointing at, above, or below the mark at any time has no relevance to the term "fetching", only that she can pass the mark without changing tack.
  
  Angelo,
  Even though the windshift is the intial cause of S sailing above close-hauled, in the absence of L, she would be able to bear away to a close-hauled course. However, in order to avoid contact with L, S must continue to sail above close-hauled and therefore L causes S to sail above close-hauled when she she otherwise could have borne away to close-hauled.
  Murray Cummings Today 16:12
• Can a boat break RRS 2 while breaking RRS 23.1?
  Yep - intentionally or not this is what the use of ‘compete’ in Rule 2 enables
  Matt Sargent Today 15:16
• Class breaks in handicap racing
  Not really thought about it before but as expressed time on time allows for wind to some extent and i am used to this.
  
  I do work in an irc world and find other hanhicap systems complex and costly. And now with added penalties discredited. 
  
  Best to have one system. 
  
  
  
  Michael Butterfield Sat 17:34
• A keen volunteer with a conflict of interest
  I must have been referring to the right subparagraph:  Jim understood.
  
  Fixed.
  John Allan 25-Dec-16 13:39
• Protest Standard of Proof and Evidence Bars
  Thanks John...even then with "...bearing in mind the seriousness of the allegation." (seriousness being the operative word), there is an educated [jurisdictional] assesssment of sorts to be made.
  John Quirk 25-Dec-16 03:37

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