David,
If you both entered the zone at the same time, you are entitled to mark
room. Furthermore, you were the leeward boat. So, raise that red flag and bitch
slap him in the protest room. Oh, you said it was a fun race? In that case,
raise the flag and politely demonstrate your right-of-way position.
Seriously, the only way you’d be in the wrong is if you collided and
there was any way in which you could have avoided the collision.
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
On Aug 19, 2014, at 4:58 PM, David Knecht via CnC-List <[email protected]>
wrote:
> I am hoping that someone can clarify the actual rules related to an incident
> that I was involved in last weekend. The race was a “fun” race, so no
> yelling, but I did not know who had rights. We had huge wind shifts
> approaching the windward mark and I was in a position where I was close
> hauled, just making the mark (to port) on starboard tack. A much larger boat
> was approaching the mark also on starboard tack but from a different
> direction. He had vastly over stood the mark due to the wind shift so he was
> coming in on a reach and due to get there at the same time as me. We both
> entered the zone around the mark at about the same time although he was going
> faster so it was hard to tell. After several polite requests, he gave me
> inside room. Who has rights in that situation since there was never really
> an overlap until we both got to the mark? Thanks- Dave
>
> Aries
> 1990 C&C 34+
> New London, CT
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