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davidyacht
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Topic: Tacking in zone Posted: 05 Apr 16 at 1:01pm |
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Am a being a little naive in thinking that mark room is a boat width (and boom if appropriate) band and that on passing the mark would either follow the hardened up starboard tack course, or an immediate tack onto port (allowing for tide) ... both of which a reasonable case could be made for proper course (ignoring other boats). Surely the PC would consider that the RS200 had gone out of the Mark Room "track" if he delayed his tack sufficiently for the Laser to complete its tack without hitting the RS200 or the mark? |
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Brass
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 05 Apr 16 at 1:04pm | ||
No, With respect to the Laser, the 200's proper course is the one she would sail in the absence of the Laser, but not in the absence of another boat. |
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Brass
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 05 Apr 16 at 1:37pm | ||
In the light conditions described your 'beam plus boom' formula might be about right but in stronger conditions it might be a boat length or more (Case 21). And the mark-room is room to 'round the mark' or 'around the mark', it does not include a 'corridor' away from the mark, once the boat entitled to mark-room has left the mark [astern], that is, once her course is no longer affected by the mark. What the 200 has, in this case, once she has left the mark, and become overlapped outside L, is room to sail her proper course [while boats remain overlapped and rule 18 continues to apply] (rule 18.2( c )(2)). This entitlement is switched on by being entitled to mark-room and becoming overlapped outside, but does not depend on sailing within the mark-room to which she is entitled, and is additional to that mark-room. What Jim is driving at is that a boat's proper course is the course she [subjectively] would sail. That means that as long as she can present a reasonable argument for sailing a particular course, which is not effectively argued against by another party in a protest, the protest committee should take her word for it. Mark-room does not include room to tack in this case because 200 is overlapped outside, not inside L (Definition: Mark-room last sentence). In any case, even when mark-room includes room to tack, this is effectively limited to her change of course until the boat is head to wind: once past head to wind, the boat's entitlement to mark-room of any kind (and her entitlement to room under rule 18.2( c )(2)) shuts off because rule 18 in its entirety ceases to apply. So effectively, all a boat gets out of an entitlement to room to tack as part of mark-room is room for her stern to kick out in a tack. In a scenario as described it would be extraordinary for L to rely on a protest solely about rule 16: she would be crazy if her protest wasn't primarily based on rule 13. And while 200 has two defences against rule 16 (that she didn't fail to give room to keep clear at all, because L tacked away and there wasn't contact, AND that, if she did break rule 16, she is exonerated under rule 21), she hasn't a feather to fly with against rule 13.
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davidyacht
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 05 Apr 16 at 2:01pm | ||
Thanks Brass I think I have learnt something; seems to me that if the 200 had exercised better coursecraft he could have protected his position much better ... had he tacked closer to the mark he would only have encourage the transom to spin out ... but would not have presented the side of the boat to be "T-boned" in a Port and Starboard.
Even if I were in my rights to delay the tack, I think I would be hesitant to put one in with a boat close behind, unless I felt 100% confident to pull the tack off and clear him.
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piglet
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 05 Apr 16 at 8:01pm | ||
21 gives that a boat entitled to room shall be exonerated from infringements of rules in Section A + 15&16. As rule 13 is a Section A rule could 200 be exonerated if proper course were established? |
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JimC
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 05 Apr 16 at 8:40pm | ||
No, because once you've passed head to wind mark room is gone, and RRS13 only starts to apply after passing head to wind.
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Presuming Ed
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 05 Apr 16 at 11:26pm | ||
Standard protection is to luff to head to wind alongside the mark, and make the trailing boat overlapped outside you. Once overlapped, mark room includes room to tack. Harder in current/tide though.
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davidyacht
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 06 Apr 16 at 11:11am | ||
In the Yawl my crew physically pulls in the boom so that the door is firmly shut. Though a good rounding and a bit of windward heel will usually do the trick.
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sundowner6959
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 11 Apr 16 at 10:16am | ||
Here's another query about tacking in the zone. . . .
Two boats on opposite tacks approach the windward mark which they are rounding to port. Boat P, on port, tacks below boat S which is approaching on starboard. Boat P's tack is clean and boat S does not have to take any avoiding action. Boat P who cannot lay the mark without luffing shoots the mark and rounds cleanly but Boat S's boom touched Boat P's rigging when this manoeuvre is carried out. Should boat S have given more room for P to round the mark or did boat P infringe the rules by tacking below S and then shooting the mark. This all happened within two boat lengths of the mark. |
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piglet
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 11 Apr 16 at 10:25am | ||
Did P force S to sail above close hauled?
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