Question
Is it permissible for a competitor to hold the sheet of a headsail or spinnaker outboard?
Answer
Rule
55.3 states ‘No sail shall be sheeted over or through any device that exerts outward pressure on a sheet . . . .’ No part of a person’s body is a ‘device’. It is therefore permissible for a competitor to hold a sheet outboard, provided that rule
49 is complied with.
GBR 1962/41