After Finishing

All bar one of the oranised racing I've done has been tem racing with three or occasionally two minute starts - the normal pre race signals and flags are not one of my strongpoints! I know that you have no rights over a boat that is racing, but when two boats that are not racing meet whether they are under racing rules does make a differnence. When team racing we quite often chased oter boats down before the start (or at least tried to!) and how the rules apply can make a big difference there. The one minute bit was from the verbal SIs often given at the regattas I attended, and they did say the racing rules as opposed to the part 2 rules. I didn't think to check whereabouts that line came from, looking at it again it is obvious it only applies to part 2. I don't mean to sound difficult, but it helps to know I'm mis-interpreting rules!