how much mark room

   Once you have established the right to water around a mark from which to head back upwind, how wide are you allowed to push the boat who is giving room in order to get a better mark rounding. I believe the rules say that you must be able to make a seamanlike manoeuvre, but what does this constitute. Today I was in this situation and the outside boat gave me less than 10 cm clearance from the mark, meaning that I was about 2 boat lengths away from the mark by the time I had hardener up fully. I wouldn't consider this seamanlike, even though I didn't touch the mark. Where is the line drawn.

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	Once you have established the right to water around a mark from which to head back upwind, how wide are you allowed to push the boat who is giving room in order to get a better mark rounding. I believe the rules say that you must be able to make a seamanlike manoeuvre, but what does this constitute. Today I was in this situation and the outside boat gave me less than 10 cm clearance from the mark, meaning that I was about 2 boat lengths away from the mark by the time I had hardener up fully. I wouldn't consider this seamanlike, even though I didn't touch the mark. Where is the line drawn.