• Close Starboard-Port upwind with 20m Bargers RRS 10 -15-14
  17 Comments
  Gijs Vlas Thu 16:08
• RRS 20.1
  57 Comments
  Chin In Sun 23:13
• New medal series formats
  9 Comments
  Jacopo Morelli 25-Oct-11 11:29
• RRS 63.5(c) and what a PC "believes"
  11 Comments
  Angelo Guarino 25-Oct-10 17:48
• Rule 18.3
  3 Comments
  Eric Meyn 25-Oct-10 12:54

• RRS 20.1
  Angelo, the case goes against all accepted principles regarding anticipation.
  It is inconsistant in itself, in describing a hail as having to be sufficieltly loudfor the other boat to hear it  hardly consistent with anticipation.
  
  As i see it you wait to hear the hail that must be capable of you hearing it, then you responed.
  
  If you do not hear, do not fear as they will hail again.
  
  I am sure this case from its original has been edited and edited, this shows how commirtee creep, comes in and what was originally agreed by a large ws body gets changed by a small committee.
  
  I was shocked to be at an evenr weeks off the rule bok being finalised, to find a jury member was stll in edit mode. The ws main committee had approved subject to edit, this was done by a few possibly without reference to the main committee again.
  
  It is sloppy and leads to the mess of a rule book ( i mean on changes) we have this time.
  Whether if you see an incident and can protest, very sensible, is resolved we do not know.
  Weas judges on this are in a horrible position caused by the rewrite of the rules.
  
  A mess!
  Michael Butterfield Today 11:43
• Close Starboard-Port upwind with 20m Bargers RRS 10 -15-14
  This is very cool Gijs Vlas!
  On the one hand, I'm loathe to draw conclusions from a video, and I definitely see how the starboard boat could be seen as breaking RRS15.
  
  However, I see something that counters that conclusion: at 42 seconds, JJ (Orange) begins her turn to avoid. However, at 45 seconds, with her jib partially luffing, she arrests her turn by centering her tiller (or even slightly above). JJ does not start turning again until 50 seconds, and does not cross head-to-wind until 58 seconds. That's 16+ seconds between Yellow reaching close-hauled and JJ crossing HTW. Additionally, within that time, JJ kills all their speed, making it even harder for them to avoid. It's an odd maneuver by JJ IMO.
  
  I actually think your diagram is too "kind" to Orange. I think when Z (Yellow) completes her tack, there is more than 2 boat-lengths between them. Also, JJ fails to even get past HTW before they come together, which isn't quite represented correctly in your diagram.
  
  I think it's likely that most protest committees would need help getting there, but it should be possible to find Orange delayed their avoiding maneuver for too long.
  Niko Kotsatos Yesterday 13:56
• New medal series formats
  Olympic sailing would do well to include match racing in traditional spinnaker displacement boats.
  Also perhaps a mini version of SailGP (like in foiling Nacras with a similar format though probably over more days). Heck full SailGP would be fine if they wanted.
  I'd also love to see teams racing, though I can imagine only a select few would know what was going on in terms of the rules and boat-handling. Perhaps 2v2 would be more digestible, even though it's clearly a lesser sport.
  I also think that freestyle kiting should probably be included, as well as wing-foil racing.
  
  That's five events under the sailing umbrella, but with sufficient differences such that it would be similar to watching skiing or skating in all their formats.
  Niko Kotsatos Tue 15:22
• Leeward mark on opposite tacks
  It's RRS 18.2a(1). Both of them are overlapped before enter the zone with Blue inside and Yellow outside. To answer Antonio, Yellow shall give Mark room to Blue... 
  Chin In Mon 14:00
• Best Scoring System to Select Champion Boat from multiple Divisions
  I think here we get into an interesting philosophical point.  Are we evaluating boats based on SPEED or are we evaluating them based on OUTMANEUVERING their competitors strategically?  The winning boat may have given up course time to cover their competition.  A good move in that division even if it cost some time.
  Michael Moradzadeh 25-Oct-11 12:16

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