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Appendix C MATCH RACING RULES

C2.5 Add new rule 8 to Part 1:

8 LAST POINT OF CERTAINTY

The umpires will assume that the state of a boat, or her
relationship to another boat, has not changed, until they are
certain that it has changed.

C2.6 Rule 13 is changed to:

13 WHILE TACKING OR GYBING

13.1 After a boat passes head to wind, she shall keep clear of other
boats until she is on a close-hauled course.

13.2 After the foot of the mainsail of a boat sailing downwind
crosses the centreline she shall keep clear of other boats until
her mainsail has filled or she is no longer sailing downwind.

13.3 While rule 13.1 or 13.2 applies, rules 10, 11 and 12 do not.
However, if two boats are subject to rule 13.1 or 13.2 at the
same time, the one on the other’s port side or the one astern
shall keep clear.

C2.7 Rule 16.2 is deleted.

C2.8 Rule 17 is deleted.

C2.9 Rule 18 is changed to:

18 MARK-ROOM

18.1 When Rule 18 Applies

Rule 18 applies between boats when they are required to leave
a mark on the same side and at least one of them is in the zone.
However, it does not apply between a boat approaching a mark
and one leaving it.

18.2 Giving Mark-Room
(a) When the first boat reaches the zone,

(1) if boats are overlapped, the outside boat at that
moment shall thereafter give the inside boat mark-

room.
(2) if boats are not overlapped, the boat that has not

reached the zone shall thereafter give mark-room.

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