Inside Overlap

The more I think about 22.2 the worse it gets. It is fine in a championship where there is only one class going around a course. But thinking about something like the Warsash Spring Series White Group: you have around 100 boats in half a dozen different classes sailing in the same bit of the Solent. Some are doing the same course, some aren't. You probably don't know what course another class is doing (and perhaps can't, because you are asked to keep well clear of the line and committee boat area before your start). So how are you supposed to know if a boat in another class is on the same leg/lap as you are anyway? It is fair enough to be expected to keep tabs on your own class, but how can you know what half a dozen others are all up to?

I'm sure some people sailing dinghies inland will face similar problems.

Just found new  rule 22.2 myself too ,

you guys beat me to it .

Seems it would cover faster boats lapping slower ones and within same class .

A rya/isaf clarification would be useful as this situation arises often.

I'm not sure about that. What is "interference"? Are normal boat-on-boat tactics to maintain clear air "interference" or is "interference" purely deliberate harrassment of another boat?

The RRS glossary does not define the term and the ISAF casebook doesn't have any case related to rule 22.1 (the old bit). How as helms we are supposed to know what it means is a mystery to me.

I see Jeffers , we may have been talking about scenarios in differing perspectives , you are talking of situations within handicap racing were performance differences are not so dramatic and also where you are racing the passing boat too.

My comments from an assymetric cat sailor on passing slower boats by the fastest and least harmfull to BOTH boats was actually in the scenario where we find slow boats who do not understand what we are trying to do when passing and who we are not even racing , ie not in our class luff like loons to stop us , only to worsen their overall standing in their fleet , a minor blip for us .

I fully realise that within your own class there are times when it is tacticaly advantageous to slow down faster boats WITHIN YOUR CLASS (and in fact within cats too) , but as explained in my posting above  and Scoobies  entries it is only to your detriment when trying to slow down boats (who are trying to cause you the LEAST interference)  that you aren't even racing .

When I say you/your  I generalise to those in slower boats and not in my class , I'm not saying you Jeffers propose such actions.

I will try and foresee such situations arising and try to avoid (as fastest for me ) but sometimes it just isn't possible , rounding leeward marks with short beat requiring only 1 tack to finish and a scattering of pinching single handers spread before you being a common  example .

We all have to get on with it.

When reaching it's just about irrelivant for cats vs other boats without kites up.

We can also usualy point higher than othewr kited boats when we've got ours up too.

In any breese we are going sooo much faster we can jsut blast past and forget you.  Can be very funny when people do luff you as they just get filled up with water from the bow wave as we go past