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Stephen Lomnes
Nationality: United States
Our local sailing club is trying to get more participation in racing.  One of the bottlenecks hypothesized is that new to racing sailors might not know the rules (well enough) and are affraid of getting things wrong on the course and get scolded.  Yikes!

To help our club members I whipped up this structured RRS quiz game (with the help of Claude) to cover the basic components of Part 2 organized by sections A-D with an optional quiz for definitions that are relevant to the rules in this part. 

I've gotten positive feedback from our club leadership and thought I'd share the link here for feedback, and in case its useful as a training resource for others. It's free and doesn't collect any user information.

You can share feedback through the site or post it here if you see anything that is wrong or could be better. It should work on mobile devices as well as desktop browsers.

https://sailing-rules.lomnes.com/
Created: Today 17:19

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Angelo Guarino
Forum Moderator
Nationality: United States
Certifications:
  • Regional Judge
Not a fan of this answer ...

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Created: Today 18:58
Mike Fering
Nationality: United States
Certifications:
  • Club Race Officer
You've put a lot of effort into this! I found it to be exhausting to read everything and take the quizzes. I also thought some of the graphics could be less confusing. For instance, I find it confusing when a red dialog pops up when I select a correct answer. Red means wrong, right? Numbering the boat positions (which is a convention here) would help me quickly understand the scenario. Removing the mark and mark rounding arrow when they're not pertinent would help. Overall, I think that if your target audience is newbies, this may do more to scare them away than make them comfortable on the racecourse. For them, simplifying would help.
Created: Today 19:11
Zev Fort
Nationality: United States
Certifications:
  • Club Judge
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The title of the situation implies this occurs prior to the start. The side bar notes that RRS 17 may be in effect, but fails to discuss the limitations of Proper Course, being that there is no proper course prior to the starting signal.
Created: Today 19:23
Daniel Hewlette
Nationality: United States
Thanks for building and sharing!

I generally like this as a learning tool, but some of the situations could use more setup to guide the learner towards the specific rule being tested.

For example, I got this one wrong because it was not clear to me the question assumes yellow did not have time to change course / if blue does not change course they will collide. If "The move" had said "You hold your course, causing contact with yellow", that would have been a stronger setup, as it is impossible to infer if there is/is not still plenty of time for Yellow to change course using just the drawing.
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Same thing happened in the section when it came to luffing rights. This situation's answer (and another before it) turns on how the overlap was established, but the setup does not tell you how the overlap was established.

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This is as far as I've made it, but I'll definitely keep an eye on this. I've found rules-related questions put to AI to be answered ok for the basics, but replies are quite poor for tricky situations involving multiple rules. So Im curious if you verified all the situations/answers throughout the tool.
Created: Today 20:46
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