• Fix for RRS 60.4(a)(2) – Validity
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  Paul Zupan Yesterday 20:12
• Measurement Basis of Hull Length or Hull Lengths and Associated Rules
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  John Quirk Sat 17:23
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• Fix for RRS 60.4(a)(2) – Validity
  The accepted rule for comma surrounded phrases, in BrEn at least, is that the sentence should make sense without that phrase. So, probably not the best way to write the change.
  As I think I suggested in an earlier post, or maybe just thought it, my preference for the change would be : ...from a boat that was neither involved in the incident nor saw it, or...  That would, I think, satisfy the intent and remove any ambiguity.
  Ant Davey Today 09:32
• Mark-Room and Room to Pass an Obstruction who wins.
  Do the rules have to take precedence , one over the other , 18 or 19  ? I guess not , each being clearly on its own ground !
  
  That said , it must definitely clearly emerge which one applies ,from when to when , with absolute clarity on the transitions from one to another ,  or back and forth.
  
  To begin with in a scenario , If 18 applies and 19 does not , and boats are initially committed according , say the inside one starts rounding , she must have the mark room all the way till the Mark is astern of her .
  
  Between two boats at the Mark , with the inside boat in the process of rounding,19 may have switched on too late and can only have an effect on what the inside boat can or can not do after the rounding . 
  
  My 2 bits .
  Satyavir Siwatch Today 09:13
• Measurement Basis of Hull Length or Hull Lengths and Associated Rules
  I'm not sure that the recent revisions involving hull have been an improvement. We have the situation where bowsprit doesn't count for over the line or hull length, but does count for overlap. And ERS isn't that helpful when it comes to hull length. If you take a modern 18 or other similar craft there's a nominally vertical stem, but a tube projecting from that, with bracing structure both beneath and to each side. Throroughly part of the hull. OK, count it as bow sprit. Maybe. But in other classes you have exactly the same, but a solid construction. Look at these two. Where, in ERS terms is the bow on each, and how on earth do you tell who is over if you are sighting a busy startline? 

  

  Jim Champ Yesterday 13:25
• 1.1 Helping Those in Danger and Redress Race Time Adjustment
  Very practical method Alan - and 'refreshing' (for the routine ones I have PC experience in, we just did the corection calcs within ourselves - this case a major one) - for ourselves, easy enough to submit to the PC, when national level racing, as we always log all such baseline performance & tracking data from the onset of every race (and event YB Tracker always used etc).
  
  
  John Quirk Yesterday 00:15
• Rule 55.2 One Spinnaker Pole or Two?
  Gary, the issue is not whether the spinnaker is asymmetric or not. It is about the attachment of the pole to the sheet or clew of the spinnaker (RRS 55.3).
  
  Old sailors might say 'one clew of the sail must fly free'.
  
  In your 18 footer illustration, the tack of the spinnaker is on the pole, however complicated the guying/bracing arrangement of the pole may be, but the clew and the sheet are not attached to anything exerting outward pressure.
  John Allan Fri 23:14

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