• Over Early Obligations
  9 Comments
  Zev Fort Yesterday 22:08
• Hitting the mark twice: different "incidents"?
  3 Comments
  Matt Johns Yesterday 20:19
• Start Line Squeeze
  16 Comments
  Niko Kotsatos Yesterday 02:08
• When has a boat finished - touching a finish mark
  15 Comments
  Gijs Vlas Tue 02:21
• Upwind Startboard mark rounding & Spreader - Is room entitled
  18 Comments
  Gijs Vlas Mon 11:46

• Over Early Obligations
  I apologize, but this situation, unless I am mistaken, is very simple: boat B has a solution that does not waste any more time and it would also be very risky to try to luff over the windward boat since there is no guarantee that it will be able to even head into the wind and get enough space to turn back. When I was competing in World and European Championships, and this situation happened to me, I simply let the sails flame for a few seconds, the boat would stopped and i would immediately leave the sandwich and be able to return freely to the starting line.
  Armando Goulartt Today 14:02
• Start Line Squeeze
  Ben ... also is a good example that Cases and local Appeals are based on a specific set of facts.   Alter a fact or a set of facts a bit and the case might not quite apply or other rules not in the case come swooping in. 
  
  Here Case 117 was definitely helpful in describing what happens to RRS 19 as the overlaps and obstructions change, but in the OP scenario it will rest of RRS 16.1, which wasn't in the case. 
  
  Here, for those of us who sail and race, we have probably had to make the decision between a blunt collision and a grazing one.  Do I T-bone Boat A or rub hulls with Boat B.  
  
  It might come out the room that Yellow says, "Look I had nowhere to go, I had momentum, I was going to hit "somebody" the question was only who and how. I chose to put my nose between the boats because I thought it would cause less damage". (Pretty much my exact words several years ago) 
  
  Agree .. it'll come down to the boat-specs, speeds, winds, and what is said. 
  Angelo Guarino Today 10:06
• Hitting the mark twice: different "incidents"?
  These are two incidents, and require a separate penalty for each.
  Michael Butterfield Today 02:19
• When has a boat finished - touching a finish mark
  It's even possible to round the finishing mark, tacking and gybing in the process to achieve your one-turn penalty, then re-finishing.
  Vince Harris Yesterday 00:57
• Advice? PC witness to an incident
  Jim .. I agree wholeheartedly.  Earlier in the thread (and in the OP) the idea of a Judge withholding testimony and/or refusing to be a witness was raised.  I mentioned I thought it was a bad look and a bad practice.
  Angelo Guarino Tue 16:45

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