Page 18 - Call Book for Team Racing 2017-2020

QUESTION 2 QUESTION 3

Y4
B4 Y4
B4

Y3
B3 Y3 B3

Y2
B2 Y2 B2

B1 B1
Y1
Y1

Answer 2

If Y’s change of course immediately results in contact with B, then B was not
keeping clear and broke rule 11. Penalize B.

If there is a greater distance between them, and Y bears away hard without
giving B room to keep clear, then Y breaks rule 16.1. Penalize Y.

Question 3

In similar circumstances B keeps clear but, when she reaches head to wind, she
maintains this position for a while. B then passes through head to wind and,
slightly later, Y bears away and their sterns make contact. There is a protest.
What should the call be?

Answer 3

When B passes head to wind, the boats are no longer overlapped on the same
tack so paragraph (b) of the definition Keep Clear no longer applies.

If the contact would have occurred without Y bearing away, B breaks rule 13.
Penalize B.

If the contact would not have occurred without Y bearing away, Y breaks rule
16.1. Penalize Y.

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