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    Posted: 05 Dec 12 at 10:20pm
Just a bit of fun really, but also perhaps useful for coaching sailors into thinking for a second or two before they bawl "STARBOARD"...
 
How many situations can we name when a boat on Starboard would be expected to keep clear of a boat on Port?
 
I've come up with 11 so far. What does everyone think?
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(To clarify the question a bit, let's phrase it as situations where S could be penalised for not keeping clear of P)
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Isn't this a fairly trivial exercise in using the search key on the RRS?
 
Rule 12, Clear Astern
Rule 13, Tacking
Rule 19( c ) boat becoming inside overlapped at an obstruction where no room
Rule 21.1 OCS returning
Rule 21.2 taking a Penalty
Rule 21.3 sailing backwards
Rule 22:  sometimes a boat that does not 'avoid' another does not 'keep clear'
Rule 23:  sometimes a boat that 'interferes' does not 'keep clear'.
 
 
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Rule 12 only applies to boats on the same tack
Didn't count rule 13 in my list, on the basis that a boat tacking isn't yet on Starboard. Willing to be proved wrong, in which case my list is up to 12!
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Originally posted by ohFFsake

Rule 12 only applies to boats on the same tack
OK, my mistake, so not as trivially simple as I said.
Originally posted by ohFFsake

Didn't count rule 13 in my list, on the basis that a boat tacking isn't yet on Starboard. Willing to be proved wrong, in which case my list is up to 12!
 
See Definitions: Tack, Starboard or Port and Leeward and Windward.  A boat is never not on one tack or the other.
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Originally posted by Brass

A boat is never not on one tack or the other.
Except when she is head to wind?
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Originally posted by ohFFsake

Originally posted by Brass

A boat is never not on one tack or the other.
Except when she is head to wind?
No.
 
See Definition:  Leeward and Windward first  and third sentences:
A boat’s leeward side is the side that is or, when she is head to wind, was away from the wind.
 
The other side is her windward side.
So a boat always has a leeward side and always has a windward side.
 
See Definition Tack, Starboard or Port
A boat is on the tack, starboard or port, corresponding to her windward side.
So a boat is always on one tack or another.
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Thanks. That definitely gives me another one then!
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when a boat is about to hit land....

Edited by radixon - 06 Dec 12 at 8:24am
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