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  John Quirk Sun 17:44
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  Angelo Guarino 25-Dec-31 13:37
• Mark-Room and Room to Pass an Obstruction who wins.
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  Mark Townsend 25-Dec-26 18:39

• Mark-Room and Room to Pass an Obstruction who wins.
  Yes, and SR as RoW boat in the diagram is following a prudent and relvantely normal track from before and when rounding the mark - PE was doing this also coming up to the mark but coming near the obstruction chose of her own volition to luff-up for reasons of their own (rather than a classic 'throttling-back' maneuver); and that is their own prudent decision = protest invalid.
  What I don't see on this matter in RRS is the notion of 'foreseeable' (?) - in practcal reality, speaking as a racer, both SR and PE would have seen the whole scenario as they entered the zone (even well before then) and have their 'game-plan' prior set for the rounding (things can later go astray though - with or without an obstruction present (a kiwi drop bungled or whatever)) and adjustment to that plan is needed by a boat or both boats (not required of SR in this case though)..all looked well in order to me for both SR and PE.
  On at techincal drafting note: I think it is an 'operable phrase' ("...at an obstruction..."), rather than 'word specific' ('AT') - the tensing can mean either coming to (as foreseen) or 'at the time' - if that was to be the case then the phrase would need to be 'at the obstruction' (perhaps I am being too anal about it :))
  John Quirk Today 01:02
• 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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