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

• RRS 20.1
  Mike .. Case 54 has a source footnote as "GBR 2016/2".   Maybe you have access to earlier versions of the case before it was elevated to a WS Case?
  Angelo Guarino Today 01:52
• Close Starboard-Port upwind with 20m Bargers RRS 10 -15-14
  Gijs, looking at the video, one thing that we don't know is if the camera angle cut at 0:42 is at the same time-stamp (no loss of time or repeat of time).
  
  ASSUMING THAT THE CAMERA ANGLE CUT WAS DONE AT THE EXACT SAME TIME

  
  Z completes a smooth seamanlike tack from 0:29-0:41 (12 sec).  So, we can at least judge that is a reasonable time in these conditions to turn through a tack.
  
  Now, lets look at 0:42 ... 

  • Z has reached her close-hauled course.
  • J has tacked passed her close-hauled course

  
  After the camera angle cut at 0:42

  • J alters course to windward from 0:42-0:46, apparently coming up to her port-tack close-hauled course. 
  • The J's rudder is steady from 0:45 to 0:49
  • J starts turns her rudder at 0:49 to tack and reaches HTW at 0:57

  
  

  Z alters course to avoid J starting at 0:57, prior to J reaching close-hauled

  
  

  From the video, it looks to me that Z provided J time to keep-clear under RRS 15 and that J broke RRS 13.
  
  

  1. At 0:42, Z had established herself on starboard-tack and was no longer under RRS 13.
  2. J could have altered course to leeward starting at 0:42 and ducked Z instead of coming up to a close-hauled course
  3. J could also have continued her turn and not paused for 4 seconds between 0:45-0:49.  That extra 4 seconds would have put her turn full-tack at 12 sec's .. the same as Z's open water seamanlike tack.
  Angelo Guarino Yesterday 11:57
• 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 25-Oct-13 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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