• How long is the race committee allowed to change the position of the first windward mark?
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• How long is the race committee allowed to change the position of the first windward mark?
  Competitor's perspective here... Angelo, I agree fully. Good sailors will get the bearing of the windward mark for the following reasons:
  
  1. Determine which is the longest tack off the starting line. For instance, if the median wind direction is 270, and the mark bearing is 280, then (all else equal, in oscillating conditions) you should plan to get onto port tack soon after the start, in order to sail the long tack (port) first and preserve your options.
  
  2. Plan your likely downwind strategy. In the above example, in a sloop, you'll want to sail the long jibe (starboard) first, and plan on a bearaway spinnaker set being most likely (subject to wind shifts). In a Laser in less than 9 knots, you'll want to jibe to get onto the faster by the lee port jibe (putting wave skew aside).
  
  3. Determine how to find the leeward mark or gate if big waves, by taking the reciprocal of the windward mark heading, and using that as your median heading (modulo any heading changes for puffs and/or waves).
  
  All that planning is the mark of a well-prepared boat, and it goes out the window if the windward mark is moved.
  Al Sargent Today 22:53
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  John Mooney Today 16:05
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  The OSR are not listed as rules in RRS Definitions Rule and are not designated by WS as a rule (listed in RRS 6).  They do not automatically apply.  They need to be switched on in NOR 1 with words like 
  
  1.2  The World Sailing Offshore Special Regulations applicable to Category X races apply.
  
  Where X is to number of the Category selected by the OA.
  John Allan Fri 02:01
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  Ang thanks I see your scenario does mention Yellow forcing Cyan down below the mark. Agree 11 is broken in that scenario. Thanks for digging up the 2018 reference to 18.3 not ending until the two boats leave the zone. That was an interesting learning. 
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  Note in the definition it states “referred to in the rule using the term.”  In other words , Proper Course only exists when a rule uses the term, like RRS 17.  Since RRS 10 & 11 don’t  use the term it fires not apply.
  Proper Course  A course a boat would choose in order to sail the course as quickly as possible in the absence of the other boats referred to in the rule using the term. A boat has no proper coursebefore her starting signal.
  Robert Williams 25-Oct-30 11:39

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