What constitutes a mark rounding?

Why the hell not ?

Never trapezed over a mark when rounding ???

 

same thing.

 

I agree...if you have wings/multiple hulls it is ok as long as you don't hit the mark. The problem is that if you are that tight on entry to the rounding you are going to be sooooooo wide on the exit.

Best bet is to get it right in the first place!.....

Except that wings, bodies and tiller extensions are not in contact with the water in the normal sailing position ie 90% of the time. (Not sure that's true in my case but you get my drift).

There's a difference between a part of the boat that's not normally in the water going clear over and deliberately lifting a bit over it that is 'normally' in the water.

What about a big tri putting one outrigger the wrong side because it's out of the water?

Edited by Matt Jackson

Originally posted by Strawberry What about if there was a really big trimaran, and really little marks, and the tri sailed right over the top of the mark between the hulls, but didn't actually hit it.

 

I think you could argue that using the "string" concept, that the boat had not completed the course. 

Generally in order to fly the hull over a mark, I would need the plate out too !  And the plate (fully down) draws about 1000mm so I'd not attempt it.

Would be possible in something with skegs like a Sprint 15, but as I said above it's a very risky plan.  

Originally posted by Scooby_simon I think you could argue that using the "string" concept, that the boat had not completed the course.

AFAIK the RRS does not define what consitutes the "boat" in this context.

What about a keelboat that rounds the windward mark heeling so that the upper mast section on the "wrong" side of a vertical line through the mark. That is a perfectly feasible situation. Nobody would say they had not rounded the mark properly.