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  Catalan Benaros 25-Oct-30 18:55

• 18.1(a)(2)
   Christopher Walmsley - I am struggling with "a beat to windward"  If I look at Case 132, Situation 3, a starboard boat has overstood, but it is still a beat to windward for them.  Say a shift happened after the start and the boats on the signal boat end laid the mark without tacking, but a pin end starter did have to tack and approached on port at the mark (i.e. crank situation 3 clockwise by 45 degrees).   In that case do we define this "beat to windward" if A) both boats were close hauled the entire leg? b) a beat to windward only if starboard had to tack at least once? c)not a beat to windward if the starboard boat actually was able to crack off toward the end of the leg?   Maybe another way to ask is "a beat to windward describe a leg of the course by the need for at least one boat to tack assuming they beat up the course in a seamanlike manner?  I understand that two fleets may approach a mark where it is a windward mark for one fleet and not for the other one....  but even in that case isn't it the fact that the leg is a beat to windward that controls the situation????  Thank You ... Dick
  Richard York Today 20:21
• How long is the race committee allowed to change the position of the first windward mark?
  Niko. Thats what we did.  we've started the process of rearranging the course early before the warning signal and the pin end finished moving before the prep signal, but for some reason the first mark (boat) was somehow slow doing it and did not manage moving to the new position in time. Realizing that i've showed AP and restarted the whole thing.  All the questions, if this had been in the rules or not raised up later after racing and some competitors kept complaining even to the next day. so i tried to do my homeworks the next day. very interesting readings.
  Christian Hartmann Yesterday 05:22
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  FWIW, as I read RRS 32.2, the "S" flag replaces the blue flag referred to in Race Signals.
  John Mooney Thu 16:05
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  The OSR are not listed as rules in RRS Definitions Rule and are not designated by WS as a rule (listed in RRS 6).  They do not automatically apply.  They need to be switched on in NOR 1 with words like 
  
  1.2  The World Sailing Offshore Special Regulations applicable to Category X races apply.
  
  Where X is to number of the Category selected by the OA.
  John Allan 25-Oct-31 02:01
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  Ang thanks I see your scenario does mention Yellow forcing Cyan down below the mark. Agree 11 is broken in that scenario. Thanks for digging up the 2018 reference to 18.3 not ending until the two boats leave the zone. That was an interesting learning. 
  Warren Collier 25-Oct-30 12:41

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