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Original Message -----
From:
Norm Oleson
To:
uncle-al3854@cogeco.ca
Sent:
Sunday, March 17, 2002 8:31 AM
Subject:
Boats on same tack converging from opposite
directions; Printing
problems
Dear
Uncle Al
I'm on
a rules committee for our local sailing club and your work in
explaining
the rules is very helpful. In fact your explanations are far
better
than "Paul Elvstrom explains The Racing Rules of Sailing". Will
pass
on your address to others in our club.
Rules
question: All experienced racers should know that in a crossing
situation
between a boat sailing downwind and a boat sailing upwind, both boats
on
the same tack, the leeward boat has the right of way.
Unfortunately
I can't find this in the rules. Rule 11 comes close but has the
stipulation
"overlapped" which doesn't apply to this situation. Rule 12 covers
"not overlapped" but gets into clear ahead/clear astern. Very
confusing,
please explain.
...
..
Printing
problem. Would like to point out a problem with printing out your
great stuff. Your pages are so wide that they don't print
correctly
in landscape. For example in your "Brief Synopsis of the Racing
Rules"
several characters are missing when printed in landscape even when I
set
the margins to .5 inches. Some of the other sections print all
the
characters but it would be better to have larger margins so you could
use
a 3 hole punch.
Thanks
and keep up the good work.
Norm
Oleson
Stuart,
Florida
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