• Hitting a mark but not rounding it
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  Phil Macwhirter Fri 12:07
• Zone and RRS 18 in a HC fleet with boats of different lengths
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  Andrew Lesslie Wed 01:37
• Portsmouth Yardstick
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  Satish Kumar Kanwar 26-Mar-01 13:19
• An ERS question - a contradiction in F 1.6 vs F 1.7(b) (xi)
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  John Ball 26-Feb-26 01:57
• Race Score RRS 35
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  Satish Kumar Kanwar 26-Feb-25 02:23

• Portsmouth Yardstick
  John, the advantage is the obvious one. In a fleet with disparate handicaps the fast boats get as much time racing as the slow ones. We are, after all, out there to race, not hang about between races.It can help even out the effects of changing weather and tide too, but that's secondary. 
  Jim Champ Today 17:58
• Tool to preprocess list of competitors for RRS
  Is there somewhere in RRS that you can specify the fields to be output in the Competitors List? My first attempt included both Competitors and Crew. My intention was to import into Sailwave and like you, there' a lot of editing and mapping to get rid of some fields and combine others.
  Robert Youle Today 16:17
• Hitting a mark but not rounding it
  Up to 1969 the penalty for touching a mark was to retire.  No options.
  
  In the 1969 RRS (Rule 52) the option of (if the mark was in navigable water) of re-rounding the mark was introduced.
  
  The 1977 RRS introduced a 360 degree penalty if the mark was not surrounded by navigable water, but retained the re-rounding requirement if it was.
  
  The One Turn Penalty for all mark touches was introduced in the 1989 RRS.
  John Allan Yesterday 22:28
• Zone and RRS 18 in a HC fleet with boats of different lengths
  Richard, I don't think you are correctly applying the definition of zone.
  
  Here is the definition
  
  Zone The area around a mark within a distance of three hull lengths of the boat nearer to it. A boat is in the zone when any part of her hull is in the zone.
  
  There is nothing in the definition about it ceasing to apply when there is a change in the boat nearest to the mark.
  
  As between two boats there will always be a boat nearer to the mark (if boats appear equal, applying the last point of certainty principle explained above), and there will always be a zone as defined.
  
  And, by the by, there was nothing in the OP about the mark being an obstruction.
  John Allan Yesterday 22:07
• Safety Regulations
  Roger, et al,  Could you provide some more detail about how Seagulls work please.
  
  Is a Seagull different from a Beach Maeshall/Master?
  
  What exactly are the duties and tasks of the Seagulls?
  
  What documents/lists do they use?
  
  How do they interact with the CRO?
  John Allan 26-Mar-01 23:01

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