Case #66
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From: ken.grimson@gb.abb.com 
To: uncle-al@cogeco.ca 
Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 11:10 AM

Al

What a great site this is. I've learnt more in the last hour or so than in weeks studying the RRS. I'm fairly new to racing and have been spending a lot of time reading the RRS. However, last weekend we came up against a situation which confused us and possibly several others and I wondered if I could have your view. It didn't result in a formal protest and there were no collisions.

In our races there are 3 cruiser classes and because of the confines of the estuary and tides, we all start together but sail different courses. Occasionally, the fleets converge around a mark and I guess that if it is to be left on the same side by boats from different classes, then Rule 18 applies to all boats when about to round. The situation that happened recently was where 3 boats were approaching the same mark. Two class 1 boats on broad reaches, one port and us on starboard, had to round the mark leaving it to starboard, and the third - a class 3 boat - was sailing in
the opposite direction, close-hauled on St'bd and had to leave the same mark to port. The distances and speeds were such that all three boats would arrive at the zone at effectively the same time.
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Question 1:  Does Rule 18 apply if all boats are not passing on the same side or should Rules 10 & 11 mainly apply between all three boats?
2:  Does the inside class 1 boat on port have right to room to round inside us on st'bd & force us to change course?
3:  Does the inner class 1 boat on port have to keep clear of both the other boats?

Thanking you in anticipation.

Ken

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