Arbitration Old Corvus vs Jazz Summer Series 1 Night 3, August 1st, .Race #1 Facts: The wind was light (2-3 knots) and had shifted to the right so that the race became a reach to the windward mark and then a reach back to the finish. Old Corvus was to leeward of Jazz both on port […]
Protest of Elentari (bow #18) by Corvus (bow #33) first leg in Race 4 of the BISF Second Summer Series Night 1 on July 11, 2011 . Facts Found: The wind was light (2-3 knots from the West) and the current was flooding ½ knot from right to left Both boats are Star Class sailboats […]
The Appeal of Sugar Magnolia is now decided. Pardon the date from last year on this post, but I pulled the original post at the request of PIYA until it was decided by US Sailing and now it has.. This post is to provide an update of the appeal and show how it was finally […]
Facts Found:1. When Blue enters the Zone Green and Yellow are clear astern of Blue.2. When Green enters the Zone she is overlapped to leeward and inside of Yellow.3. At position 1, Blue luffs head to wind to finish and tacks to port to clear the finish mark. Blue stalls and is moving slowly away […]
Below is the decision from the protest committee for the protest in race 3 of the Black Star Regatta for your information. Facts Found:1. Bow #14 (Yellow) rounded the windward mark clear ahead of Bow #23 (Blue).2. #23 overtook #14 between the windward and offset mark and became overlapped to leeward of #14.3. As #14 […]
Facts of the Scenario:At 3 boat lengths Yellow is overlapped with Blue. Blue is sailing on a course toward the mark. She continues on this course until she reaches 2 boat lengths and then turns down to give room to Yellow at the mark. At position 3 Yellow turns down to sail to the mark […]
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. […]
