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Originally posted by mozzy

Why does 18.4 not apply to leeward gates though?

At a guess I think it would cause confusion because the ROW boat should be able to choose which side of the gate she goes to, but 18.4 would tend to force her to the L side.
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Yeah, i think we did the best we could with the options open. Maybe try and meet the port boat before the zone, but like I said above, that has it's own risks. 

Why does 18.4 not apply to leeward gates though? 

Not at the weekend but most of the time we have leeward gate, sometime this is modified to just a port mark for last lap, but sometimes not, and never when the course is shortened. So it seems like there are some odd scenario where this option to sail beyond my proper course then gybe would be open to a starboard boat with mark room at a port hand mark. 
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When an inside overlapped right-of-way boat must gybe at a mark to sail her proper course, until she gybes she shall sail no farther from the mark than needed to sail that course

I can't see you have much leeway in there to do that. Unless you could argue your proper course was to delay gybing - and forcing the other boat to gybe doesn't count towards that!
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Asymmetric boats sailing to final port hand leeward mark before a short reach to the finish. 

Both boats are coming in on their laylines. Starboard is overlapped inside and entitled to mark room. Proper course is to gybe on the mark for tight reach to the finish.

At the weekend I was in starboard position and gybed on the mark. Port boat carried her momentum through to leeward to finish ahead. 

Afterwards we discussed and decided it would have been better to sail a higher course from further out, to meet the port boat before the zone and call starboard on them then, forcing a double gybe, or them to take our transom. The risk with that is that they take your transom and have an inside overlap once you gybe for the mark. 

But could I have instead of carried on on starboard, forcing the port boat to gybe off, before then gybing on to port myself and finish? I.e. force the port boat to double gybe. 

But does 18.4 require me to gybe right on the mark and not continue on starboard to force the other boat to gybe? 
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