Forum: The Racing Rules of Sailing
RRS 35 and Q&A 2015-012
Aldo Balelli
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Hi everybody.
Thanks for all your patience; this forum is really clarifying a lot of things to me, hope it works the same for you.
I cannot match the sense of this sentence in the Q&A, to justify taking an OCS boat arrival time as good for the time limit:
https://www.racingrulesofsailing.org/cases/1109?page=20
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Question 3
Thanks for all your patience; this forum is really clarifying a lot of things to me, hope it works the same for you.
I cannot match the sense of this sentence in the Q&A, to justify taking an OCS boat arrival time as good for the time limit:
https://www.racingrulesofsailing.org/cases/1109?page=20
quote:
Question 3
Would the answers for Questions 1 and 2 be different if boat A had not returned to pre-start side of the starting line before starting?
Answer 3 No. The answers to both questions would be the same.
Rule 35 requires the boat to sail the course, and it does not mention starting....(omissis) ... it makes no difference for the purpose of rule 35 whether the boat returned and started.
Rule 35 requires the boat to sail the course, and it does not mention starting....(omissis) ... it makes no difference for the purpose of rule 35 whether the boat returned and started.
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My conflict: true that rule 35 does not directly mention "start", but it does mention "sail the course as required by rule 28", and rule 28 states "a boat shall "start", sail the course etc.."
So a boat not complying with the definition of "start" is not sailing the course as required by rule 28, and so she do not (should not) meet the condition asked by rule 35.
Is it?
My conflict: true that rule 35 does not directly mention "start", but it does mention "sail the course as required by rule 28", and rule 28 states "a boat shall "start", sail the course etc.."
So a boat not complying with the definition of "start" is not sailing the course as required by rule 28, and so she do not (should not) meet the condition asked by rule 35.
Is it?
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I totally agree. In my opinion the Q&A PANEL din't consider rule 90.3.a
I suggest that you defer considering this for a while.
The 2021 RRS, linked in another recent topic now define 'sails the course', and provide that a race committee may score a boat that does not sail the course NCS without a hearing, so the conditiions in the Q&A no longer apply as stated.
I also note that that Q&A lapsed in 2016.
Correct is to score her OCS and, after time limit, declare the race abandoned.
So a boat not complying with the definition of "start" is not sailing the course as required by rule 28, and so she do not (should not) meet the condition asked by rule 35.
Current rules: start, sailing the course, finish are three different things, totally independant from each other! You can sail the course and finish, but have not started. You can start and finish, but not sail the course, you can start and sail the course but not finish and you can sail the course but have not started and finished.
Sailing the course in the current meaning is rounding the marks after starting and before finishing.
But as John mentioned, this will change on Jan. 1st, 2021 becuase then we will have the definition of sailing the course that includes start and finish.