Page 97 - Call Book for Team Racing 2017-2020

TR CALL L1

Rule 64.1(a) Decisions, Exoneration
D2.3(g) Penalties Initiated by an Umpire

Question

Approaching a windward mark, Y, on port tack, bears away to pass astern of B
on starboard. Y is keeping clear when B’s crew suddenly pushes out her boom
and backs her mainsail, and her boom hits Y’s rigging. B protests. What should
the call be?

B3

Y3
Y2 B2

Y1
B1

Answer

Y breaks rule 10, but is compelled to do so by the action of B that is a breach of
sportsmanship. Penalize B under rule D2.3(g), and exonerate Y under rule
64.1(a).

(See also World Sailing Case 73 and call A4)

When a right-of-way boat continues to sail her course, but through a deliberate
action that could have no other intention than to cause contact with a keep clear
boat that would otherwise have kept clear, then this is a breach of
sportsmanship.

Section L - Other Rules