(based on an actual situation contributed by Marc Bennett who was a very popular crew on all types of boats in the Toronto area untgil he married Julie and moved to East Lansing)

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55. On a dead run to the finish, Fearsome Flosser, Bicuspid and Rum Line are approaching the finish line in about 3 knots of breeze and flat water. All three are going to finish at the RC boat end. As shown at left, Bicuspid and Rum Line are overlapped on starboard tack. Fearsome Flosser is on port tack and calls for mark-room at the RC boat about 5 lengths from the line because she is overlapped with Bicuspid

Bicuspid denies room to Fearsome Flosser on the grounds that the RC boat is not a mark. "In any case," says Bicuspid, "to give room to Fearsome Flosser, I would have to make Rum Line move, and you're not entitled to make Rum Line do that since you are not overlapped with Rum Line!" Fearsome Flosser nearly hits both Bicuspid and the RC boat before gybing away and doing a full circle to try again. Fearsome Flosser immediately lodges a valid protest. When Fearsome Flosser finally limps across the line, she has fallen from 3rd place to 24th in a closely packed fleet off Toronto. Fearsome Flosser also files a protest asking for redress. 

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