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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.
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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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