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RYA 1975/6 Rule 24.2, Interfering with Another Boat
A right-of-way boat is exonerated if she breaks rule
16.1 while sailing a proper course at a mark and taking CASE 126
mark-room to which she is entitled. For the purpose of determining whether rule 24.2
applies to an incident, a boat is sailing on the leg which
is consistent with her course immediately before the
RYA 1982/6 incident and her reasons for sailing that course.
A boat that responds to a hail for room to tack by
starting to tack, but so slowly that she delays RYA 1967/13
completion of the tack beyond a reasonable time, is not When a boat that starts and finishes deliberately uses
responding as soon as possible after the hail. the right-of-way rules to ‘sail off’ another on the same
leg of the course to benefit her own series position, she
RYA 2003/1 does not break rule 2 or rule 24.2.
When a right-of-way boat at a mark no longer needs
room to leave the mark on the required side, rule 21 RYA 1988/9
does not exonerate her if she breaks rule 16.1. The rights of a boat that passes a mark on the wrong
side, without touching it, and is unwinding, are not
RYA 2003/5 diminished in any way, she is sailing the same leg of the
Rule 21 offers no exoneration for breaking rule 14. In course as a boat rounding normally.
order to avoid penalization when damage results from a
collision, a right-of-way boat rounding a mark may PART 3 – CONDUCT OF A RACE
need to delay her normal change of course, or indeed
change course in the other direction in order to comply Rule 25, Notice of Race, Sailing
with the requirement to avoid contact if reasonably Instructions and Signals
possible.
RYA 1969/1
RYA 2003/7
An inside overlapped boat that obtains right of way Unless the sailing instructions state otherwise, when
inside the zone is entitled to sail to windward of the courses are shortened using flag S, the finishing line
room to sail to the mark to which she is entitled, but must be between the committee boat and a mark, or at
only if in the process she complies with rule 18.4, and a line or a gate.
with rules 15 and 16.1 with respect to the outside boat. RYA 1990/5
When a race officer warns a boat that she may be
protested by the race committee, and as a result she
Rule 23, Capsized, Anchored or Aground; takes a two-turns penalty, she is not eligible for
Rescuing redress. Oral instructions, unless specifically
authorised in the notice of race or sailing instructions,
CASE 5 need not be complied with.Rule 26, Starting Races
A boat that is anchored while racing is still racing. A
boat does not break rule 42.1 or rule 45 if, while pulling
in her anchor line to recover the anchor, she returns to Rule 26, Starting Races
her position at the time the anchor was lowered.
However, if pulling in the anchor line clearly propels CASE 31
her to a different position, she breaks those rules. When the correct visual recall signal for individual
recall is made but the required sound signal is not, and
RYA 1990/6 when a recalled boat in a position to hear a sound
When a boat has capsized near another, obligations signal does not see the visual signal and does not
under the rules of Section A of Part 2 end, and are return, she is entitled to redress. However, if she
replaced with an obligation to avoid the capsized boat, realizes she is on the course side of the line she must
if possible. A boat is not to be penalized when she is return and start correctly.
unable to avoid a capsized boat.
RYA 1982/7
Rule 24.1, Interfering with Another Boat A signal comprises both a flag (or object of similar
appearance) and a sound signal, unless rule 26 applies.
RYA 1986/6
When a boat abandons her attempt to sail the course, Rule 27.1, Other Race Committee Actions
she may be deemed to have retired and, if she then Before the Starting Signal
manoeuvres against, and interferes with, another boat
that is racing, she will be penalized and the helmsman RYA 1983/7
may be liable to disciplinary action. Physical limitations on signalling the course no later
than the warning signal cannot excuse a race committee
RYA 1996/1 from not complying with rule 27. A race must be
The rules of Section A of Part 2 still apply when rule 24 postponed until the course can be displayed no later
applies, and a port tack boat that is racing must keep than the warning signal.
clear of a starboard tack boat that has been racing,
independently of the obligation on the starboard tack
boat not to interfere with a boat that is racing.

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