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  • ' hanging a few sheets of paper where everyone can see them' is not an Official Notice Board, it's an unprofessional mess.

    I'd suggest that Kenneth has never had the rewarding and educational experience of being a Jury Secretary at a busy regatta.

    Maintaining the Official Notice Board up to date, from about half an hour before end of racing to end of protest hearings was a full time job for at least one person.
    Today 03:26
  • Thank you Michael for putting this together. I'm curious how your 3a (trigger pull, i.e., just one flattening of the boat) is prohibited when 42.2.b, word two is "repeated", as in "rocking: repeated rolling of the boat". One instance does not constitute repetition. 

    Is it because the boat accelerates temporarily  to a speed that's than baseline upwind speed, or something else?
    Yesterday 23:36
  • Hey Mike .. just a bump-reminder to give us your thoughts. - Ang
    Wed 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
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