tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170261917486213112.post8643769619425693255..comments2024-01-22T09:45:29.790+01:00Comments on Racing Rules of Sailing - Look to Windward: LTW Readers Q&A | 034; Balking?Joshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10346870418220762709noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170261917486213112.post-60818108689955769342010-02-11T23:22:30.527+01:002010-02-11T23:22:30.527+01:00Thanks, folks!
The clarification is much appreciat...Thanks, folks!<br />The clarification is much appreciated.<br /><br />Gave away my age there, I reckon.<br />Started racing in 1956....<br /><br />-MichaelAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170261917486213112.post-85649145079044134642010-01-19T23:16:58.793+01:002010-01-19T23:16:58.793+01:00Dear Jos,
The word baulking in the rules, I foun...Dear Jos,<br /> <br />The word baulking in the rules, I found in one of my older rule books. The RRS 1965-1968. <br />-----------------------------------------------------<br />RRS 34- Misleading or Baulking<br />1. When a yacht is required to keep clear of another, the right of way yacht shall not (except to the extent permitted by rule 38.1, luffing after starting), so alter course as to: <br /> <br />(a) prevent the other yacht from keeping clear; or:<br /> <br />(b) mislead or baulk her while she is keeping clear.<br /> <br />2. A yacht is not misleading or baulking another if she alters course by luffing or bearing away to conform a change in the strength or a direction of the wind. -----------------------------------------------------<br />It sound like Michael Maurier refers to 1965.<br />But even in that time the starboard boat had the right to tack. You just did not appreciate that as being a keep clear boat.<br /><br />Regards,<br />JoepJoep Strausnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170261917486213112.post-24902258917070137632010-01-19T23:14:57.151+01:002010-01-19T23:14:57.151+01:00Hi. Tried to post a comment to the "balking a...Hi. Tried to post a comment to the "balking and misleading" discussion, but failed. Here's what I (finally) wanted to say:<br /><br />Heckstall-Smith's 1923 book quotes a footnote to the YRA (UK) rules states:<br /><br />"Although the right of way yacht is not bound to hold her course, she must not alter it as to mislead or balk the other, in the act of keeping out of the way."<br /><br />Similar wording appears in the 1930 NAYRU (US) rules and the 1959 IYRU rules.<br /><br />Since it is in a footnote, the wording was added after the original rules were written in 1876. The discussion and the cited case (Lurcher vs. Kaga, Tanganyika, 1923) make it clear that the rules cover maneuvers and not hailing: "balking" is getting in the way of a boat attempting to keep clear and "misleading" would cover things like fake tacks and gybes.<br /><br />Cheers,<br />EarlEarlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170261917486213112.post-13947737306025613242010-01-19T17:47:25.299+01:002010-01-19T17:47:25.299+01:00I've never heard of "balking" but I ...I've never heard of "balking" but I have also been shouted at by an old-timer when doing what the starboard boat did here.<br /><br />I must admit that when I hail "starboard" to a port-tacker I am only thinking that I am telling him that I am here and that I am on starboard tack. I am warning him of my presence so he doesn't hit me. I am not making any promise about what move I might make next. <br /><br />I might stay on starboard, I might tack away if he tacks (especially if he is in a lee-bow situation) or I might even tack after he has ducked me. (People hate that!)<br /><br />If I really want to stay on starboard and the other guy can almost cross me I will probably hail, "Cross" or "Keep Going" and even bear away a little if necessary to let him cross cleanly.Tillermanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00639738519386820997noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170261917486213112.post-8642748607698254772010-01-19T16:37:50.489+01:002010-01-19T16:37:50.489+01:00I agree with Robert. Hailing "starboard"...I agree with Robert. Hailing "starboard" and then tack is usual in Opti Class and the attempt to protests for this are usual after the races.<br />No rules against doing this.<br /><br />Luigimamadehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06606442102533763244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9170261917486213112.post-88410492688576897282010-01-19T16:22:06.067+01:002010-01-19T16:22:06.067+01:00Jos
In the RRS starboard is not required to hail. ...Jos<br />In the RRS starboard is not required to hail. She does it only out of curtesy to the other boat(s). Maybe the question is indirectly about sportmanship.<br />RobertAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com