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    Posted: 02 May 16 at 4:44pm
three solos are approaching a windward mark to be left to port.
A is on port tack
B is on starboard as is C. Boat C is level to boat B and to windward by half a boat length. The overall existed well before the zone.
Within the zone boat A ( the one on port!) tacks. Boat B has to take swift avoiding action and has to luff above close hauled so obviously boat A has infringed the rules. 
In taking avoiding action boat B luffa swiftly and a collision occurs with the windward boat C.
So my question is who should take a penalty out of the boats B and C? 
Everything happened quite quickly. The outside starboard boat argued that the inner boat B didn't give adequate time to avoid collision but the inner boat argued that they had to act very quickly to avoid the tacking boat A!
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I'd say neither.

RRS 64.1a reads
when as a consequence of breaking a rule a boat has compelled another boat to break a rule, the other boat shall be exonerated.

B failed to give C room to keep clear, but B was compelled to break the rule by A, so therefore B is exonerated.

[Later] As was stated in the OP A is already established as having broken a rule so would be penalised.



Edited by JimC - 02 May 16 at 9:33pm
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Are we assuming A is taking a penalty already? Sounds like B took the action that would cause least damage.
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Originally posted by Rupert

Are we assuming A is taking a penalty already? 

OP's question was "who should take a penalty out of the boats B and C?".

Why is it relevant whether A is taking a penalty?

 
Originally posted by Rupert

 Sounds like B took the action that would cause least damage.

Why is that relevant at all?
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