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  Mark Townsend 25-Dec-26 18:39

• Mark-Room and Room to Pass an Obstruction who wins.
  I'm now thinking that looking at it from individual boats is the correct approach.
  I am SR, ROW boat. I may sail where I like, subject to limitations which I may not break.
  I am approaching mark and obstruction. 
  There is little restriction on me with RRS 18 and mark. Although naturally I wish to round the mark I do not break a rule if I pass the other side. 
  I may choose to pass the obstruction on either side, but if I leave it to starboard I must let the overlapped boat(s) in.
  So my choice is either to pass to port, let everyone in and miss the mark, or pass to starboard and all rules obeyed. The only question is whether I am exonerated if I break 19, and the consensus above seems to be that I am not. 
  
  For other boats, well if SR goes outside there is room freely given between mark and obstruction. I may be able to take advantage of that at my own risk. If SR goes to port I too have an obligation to let any overlapped boats in.
  
  
  Jim Champ Today 11:30
• 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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  HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!
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