• Should "Basic Principles" be added to RRS 4 & 5?
  5 Comments
  Angelo Guarino Today 13:40
• Judges walking the Dock
  12 Comments
  Robert Stewart Today 04:13
• Language language language
  15 Comments
  Michael Moradzadeh Sat 06:09
• Why is the "red flag" needed?
  39 Comments
  Angelo Guarino Fri 21:38
• Case 104 - Appeals to a National Authority
  2 Comments
  Jerry Thompson Thu 15:23

• Should "Basic Principles" be added to RRS 4 & 5?
  Rob, now that the BP's are no longer a rule I think they are now lacking clear status.  They are now statements without a clear anchor. They seem to be floating in the non-descript humor of the universe.
  
  If they are not rules, but something everyone agrees to as a principle, then I think they would benefit from being something that all entities in sailing agree to "accept" as such ("agree to accept" being the language of RRS 4 & 5). 
  Angelo Guarino Today 18:54
• Judges walking the Dock
  From a game theoretic point of view, this is not strange at all. We have ended up in an equilibrium where all the sailors use a trigger strategy. This means that they don't protest unless the infringer has protested them earlier. This is, if all the other sailors also use this strategy, individually rational for every sailor. There doesn't need to be any explicit agreement on this, it can emerge naturally. Of course I'm not saying this is good, neither am I telling the sailors who I coach to use this strategy, but that's how it is. I think the most important is to have the RC protest every single contact with a mark, if no penalty is taken, and a proper rule 42 enforcement from the judges.
  Jaakko Haataja Today 18:07
• Language language language
  "Will" is an interesting one. It can be a promise when the thing is in the writer's control, or maybe it's a forecast when the thing is NOT in the writer's control, as in "the current will be flooding at 2 knots at noon".
  
  So the interesting things is, what happens when the "Will" thing does not happen? Rob offers some great examples. If I say I WILL open the gate, but don't, the roofer may be excused from timely performance. If the mark is the wrong color, yeah maybe redress. What about the current? If the rain cancels out the flood tide, then what? And really, what kind of fool puts current forecasts in Sailing Instructions?
  Michael Moradzadeh Today 15:58
• Why is the "red flag" needed?
  David re: Should [the BP's] be numbered rules
  
  The WS RulesComm actually took it the opposite direction in the last quad, removing them from being a rule as they were in previous quads
  
  Def: rule(a) - 2025

  "The rules in this book, including the Definitions, Race Signals, Introduction, preambles and the rules of relevant appendices, but not the Basic Principles or titles;"

  Angelo Guarino Today 12:39
• Case 104 - Appeals to a National Authority
  additional facts can be drawn from agreed diagrams.
  
  
  Michael Butterfield Thu 16:02

Forums Leader Board

This Month