Yellow and Blue were sailing toward the finish and Yellow was sailing faster and overtaking Blue. At the zone Yellow was clear astern of Blue. At 2 lengths from the mark Yellow became overlapped with Blue and asked for room at the committee boat. Blue hailed protest and sailed on her course until just before […]
Answer the questions as a starting mark as given in the question, then answer the same questions assuming it is a finish mark. This scenario was right out of the case book. I’ve attached ISAF Case 28 from the 2009-2012 Cases for your reference, and it explains the rules involved better than I could. As […]
Let’s see how the rules work with a down wind start. Well our fleet has gone sailing and not giving answers, any takers on the following: This situation is changed to a downwind finish. Answer the same questions. The point of this exercise was to think about how the rules and result are different when […]
At 3 boat lengths Blue is overlapped inside Yellow on a course directly to the mark. At position 2, Blue heads up slightly to make more room to make a tactical rounding. At position 4 as Blue heads down to gybe Yellow heads up to pass head to wind and tack. At position 6 Yellow […]
I’ve add ISAF Case 75 for reference. I have it on good authority that this will be in the new case book with updated rule citations. At 3 boat lengths Yellow is overlapped inside Blue on a course directly to the mark. At position 2, Yellow heads up slightly to make more room to round wider […]
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 […]
I am going to post a series of Rule 18 Scenarios to highlight some of the issues to think about at the leeward mark. There are no cases published yet, so we will need to rely on what we have been told by Dick Rose at the seminar and the paper he has published for […]
I posted this quiz to highlight a change in the rules. If you were not aware 17.2 is deleted in the new rules. This rule didn’t allow yellow to sail below her proper course. Therefore, under the old rules at both position 2 and position 5 yellow would have broken old rule 17.2. As I […]
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. […]
This is a typical situation. Let’s see how the new rules apply and if there are any game changers. There is one additional question I would like to add. 7. At position 3 who has right of way White or Blue? If you got your new rule book you will have noticed that there are […]
