Martin,
The rules apply as long as a boat is RACING. By definition, a boat is
RACING from the 4-minute prep signal of her start until she has finished and
her hull has cleared the finish line.
All the best,
Edd
Edd M. Schillay
Starship Enterprise
C&C 37+ | Sail No: NCC-1701-B
City Island, NY
Starship Enterprise's Captain's Log Website
On Apr 12, 2013, at 4:25 PM, Martin DeYoung <[email protected]> wrote:
> Alan,
>
> Does Dave Perry’s 2016 RRoS book clarify the difference, if any, between
> before the start and after crossing the starting line regarding Rule 11 and
> 14?
>
> It has been a while since I read Dave’s last RRoS book but I recall something
> about the right-of-way boat having more flexibility before the starting gun.
>
> Martin
> Calypso
> 1970 C&C 43
> Seattle
>
> From: CnC-List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Alan Bergen
> Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 11:31 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Stus-List Race Video
>
> Blue was allowed to sail her course until she was the give-way boat. As soon
> as she overlapped Camelot, she was the give-way boat, and had to keep clear.
> When a give-way boat is so close to a right-of-way boat, such that the
> right-of-way boat cannot turn in either direction without immediately
> touching the give-way boat, the give-way boat has violated her obligation to
> keep clear. They do not have to touch in order to prove that Blue did not
> keep clear. See Dave Perry's "Understanding The Racing Rules of Sailing
> through 2016, page 96. In addition, the right-of-way boat must take the
> appropriate action to avoid hitting the give-way boat, when it appears that
> the give-way boat is not going to keep clear, after which she can protest the
> give-way boat.
>
> There is no requirement for either boat to communicate with the other boat,
> but it is prudent to do so. If Camelot had called to Blue to head up, or
> yelled "leeward boat" or "no room", it might have been enough to keep the
> boats from colliding. If Blue couldn't control her direction, she could have
> called to Camelot to fall off, that she couldn't steer away, Camelot might
> have been able to fall off and avoid the crash. She then could have
> protested Blue. Since both boats broke rules of part 2 of the Racing Rules of
> Sailing (Blue-Rule 11, Same tack Overlapped; Camelot-Rule 14, Avoiding
> Contact), both boats should have been penalized by retiring from the race
> (Rule 44.1(b).
>
> Alan Bergen
> C&C 35 Mk III Thirsty
> Rose City YC
> Portland, OR
>
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