With a full days 4&5 I didn’t have a chance to write a meaningful post. Anyway you are still busy with Greg’s post about Rule 20.
The last day of Act 4 was certainly exciting. Lots of action, fast races and a climactic finish in the last race were Emirates Team New Zealand grabbed the first price in the last race on the last leg to the finish. Or better said, Artemis chose the wrong side and was passed by several boats, costing them the victory. The points difference was 8 going into the final (double point race) but that was not enough. They ended up four points behind.
Strangely enough the rest of the order was exactly the same as the order in the morning. Now, don’t say it wasn’t worth sailing. During the seven races the order did change often enough – just at the end it came back, except for one and two.
We had a parking situation at the windward mark – Pindar got stuck – and the other boats had to round them with mark and all. It made the RO jumpy and considering abandonment.
So I have a question for you: What do the rules say about mark-room when a boat on a different leg of the course catches up with someone who’s stuck to the mark?
Today I’ll travel back across the great pond and will be home sometime Wednesday afternoon. With a big thanks for all the local people, signing off from Boston …… until next year?
J.
The last day of Act 4 was certainly exciting. Lots of action, fast races and a climactic finish in the last race were Emirates Team New Zealand grabbed the first price in the last race on the last leg to the finish. Or better said, Artemis chose the wrong side and was passed by several boats, costing them the victory. The points difference was 8 going into the final (double point race) but that was not enough. They ended up four points behind.
Strangely enough the rest of the order was exactly the same as the order in the morning. Now, don’t say it wasn’t worth sailing. During the seven races the order did change often enough – just at the end it came back, except for one and two.
We had a parking situation at the windward mark – Pindar got stuck – and the other boats had to round them with mark and all. It made the RO jumpy and considering abandonment.
So I have a question for you: What do the rules say about mark-room when a boat on a different leg of the course catches up with someone who’s stuck to the mark?
Today I’ll travel back across the great pond and will be home sometime Wednesday afternoon. With a big thanks for all the local people, signing off from Boston …… until next year?
J.
So I have a question for you: What do the rules say about mark-room when a boat on a different leg of the course catches up with someone who’s stuck to the mark?
ReplyDeleteI think this is covered by the definition of 'obstruction'. The boat stuck to the mark entered the zone before the other boat arrived at the zone, and so the latter has to treat the 'stuck' boat as an obstruction and entitled to mark room, and sail around both.
John