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This is a situation I was personally involved in at Gosport Model Yacht and Boat Club. Spoiler – the answer is to the best of my knowledge, but I would be delighted for any rules experts to step in and…
There are situations at the windward mark where the port tack boat tries it on by tacking inside the zone and close to the mark. A high chance of success for this approach is when the starboard tack boats have…
There are situations at the windward mark where the port tack boat ‘tries it on’, by tacking underneath a starboard tack boat inside the zone and close to the mark. I hear people say a lot, when you tack inside…
How many times on the shoreline have you heard someone say, if you tack from port to starboard inside the zone at a port hand windward mark you have no rights at all over boats that entered the zone on…