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Original Message -----
From:
Ian Farquharson
Sent:
Thursday, July 03, 2003 4:20 PM
Subject:
two questions about
buoy room
Hi Al,
Love your web site
- starting to use it more than I thought!
I have two questions for
clarification and your opinion - both involving rounding marks
and "mark-room"
1) at a windward mark
boat 'a' (me) is ahead to windward at the zone.
Boat
'b' is overlapped inside. Boat 'a' however is close-hauled making the
mark and boat 'b' (inside but a bit behind) has to pinch above
close-hauled to make it around the mark. Does boat 'a' have to give
boat 'b' "mark-room" even if it means going
above close hauled to do
so? I thought I had to give them room otherwise they would hit
the mark. One of my crew thinks they cannot take us above close-hauled.
2) at a reach
mark boat 'a' (me) approaches on starboard in a dying breeze and gybes
for the mark around 2 - 3 boat lengths away. By the time she is about 1
boat length or less from it (moving very slowly in the dying breeze)
other boats now come in on starboard tack with good pressure in fresh
breeze and claiming "mark-room" and overlap (from miles away). Should
they
get it?
On the
second issue, I gave them room although I wasn't sure they were
entitled because they had been so far away when I gybed. Afterwards in
the bar, someone explained that in that situation the overlap is
sighted from their transom to ours and even though the boats are
physically a long way apart and on different tacks that that is how the
overlap gets judged. It must be difficult to prove either way in
the protest room. Any thoughts?
Thanks in advance for
any help you can give.
cheers,
Ian