We all have to remember that although they haven’t defined continuing obstruction, they have defined what it is not, “a vessel underway including a boat racing is never a continuing obstruction”. This has changed a few things in the rules and some of the cases and appeals will need to be updated for this change. Under the old rules Vicky’s interpretation could have been correct with yellow being a continuing obstruction. But, not with the new definition of obstruction.

If you get a chance go to the SA post by Brass. It is evident that the way that rule 20 is now structured has many confused as to what are the responsibilities of the hailed boat when there is an improper hail. In the old rules the rule didn’t apply in certain circumstances and the hailed boat could safely ignore the hail without breaking the rule in those cases. This does not appear to be true any more. It seems that the hailed boat must respond to the improper hail and then protest. I assume this was changed due to concerns over safety if the hail is ignored.