NOTES

• check boats for seaworthiness
• What is the Cookie Monster’s real name?

PRACTICE

• A few practice Starts. Then first beat. Then  1,3,6 — 2,4,5 on FIRST OFFSET
• 1,2,6 downwind
• 1,4,6 — 2,3,5 final beat.
• Team race communication
  • Its not too late to communicate. Learn to coach each other on the water, even during the game. This happens in all sports at all levels. Make sure you help your teammate by yelling to them if you have to.
  • Learn about Mark rounding rules, especially Rule 17 and Rule 18.
  • Remember if you enter a zone first, without overlap, you can
    • Slow down
    • Luff hard
    • Head the trailing boat up well above proper course
    • Essentially control the rounding

    I.E., a  mark trap

  • If you enter overlapped… read below!

ENTERING THE ZONE OVERLAPPED. There IS an overlap at the zone:

When two boats enter the zone overlapped:

• Under Rule 18.2(b), the inside boat is entitled to mark-room.
• The outside boat must give that room.

What “mark-room” actually allows

Mark-room is not unlimited control. It means room to:

• Sail to the mark
• Round the mark as necessary to sail the course

The key constraint: proper course

The inside boat:

• Must round the mark in a seamanlike way
• Must continue sailing the course
• Cannot stop or delay unnecessarily to interfere with the outside boat

If the inside boat:

• Slows excessively
• Stops at the mark
• Fails to round when they reasonably could

Then they are no longer sailing within mark-room and can be penalized.

Team racing editing (Appendix D)

Team racing encourages tactical positioning, but:

• You can slow the outside boat as part of your rounding
• You cannot break Rule 18 by failing to round
• Umpires will penalize a boat that is clearly not attempting to sail the course

 Practical bottom-line

• Inside boat: “I can control the rounding  but I still have to round.”
• Outside boat: “I must give room  but only for a proper rounding.”
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Very  Bottom line

The inside boat cannot refuse to round the mark just to hold the outside boat out.
They must take mark-room and then sail on, not turn the mark into a blockade.

 

OK So What if the outside boat achieved overlap from behind as they enter the zone ??

Relevant rules:

1. Rule 18.2(b) Mark-room

• Inside boat is still entitled to mark-room
• That includes space to sail to and round the mark

2. Rule 17 On the Same Tack; Proper Course

If the outside boat:

• Came from clear astern
• Established an overlap within 2 lengths

Then the leeward (inside) boat may NOT sail above proper course

 

The interaction (this is the key point)

• Rule 18 gives rights (mark-room)
• Rule 17 limits how those rights are used

So:

The inside boat gets mark-room
BUT
The inside boat must still comply with Rule 17

 

What the inside boat cannot do

• Luff the outside boat above proper course to slow them down
• “Head them up” aggressively past a normal rounding angle
• Turn the rounding into a deliberate block above proper course

 

 What the inside boat can do

• Sail a tight, seamanlike rounding
• Control the turn within what is reasonably proper course to round
• Slightly slow or squeeze the outside boat as part of a normal rounding

 

 Team racing ….(umpire view)

Good Umpires will ask:

“Is the inside boat sailing a proper course to round the mark… or just luffing to hurt the other team?”

If it’s the latter then penalty under Rule 17

 

Bottom line

Even in team racing:

• Inside boat still gets mark-room
• But if the overlap came from behind → Rule 17 caps the play
• So the inside boat must round, and cannot luff above proper course to hold the outside boat out

 

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1	Ashton Perkins	Parker Lefever	OUT
2	Antoine Ismael	Lila Knoepfle	Gabriel Sardi
3	Chris Hanson	Kai Davids	Will Mohler
4	Grace Crespin	Ellie Lawrence
5	CC Carey	Margot McGeagh	Coach Boat B
6	Emory McAllister	Elle Maddox	Isla Norrington
7	Charlotte Stites	Bella Ford	Annabelle Ulak
8	Colin Schwab	Char Wilkin	Hudson Grow
9	Will Tweed	Brooke Perchinsky
10	Annie Sitzmann	Charlotte MacDonald
11	Alex Baker	Ana Fishback
12	Harrison Szot	Georgia Knoepfle
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FJ			Tali Gaver
1			Gaetan Ismael
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3			Coach Boat C
4			Eliza Brenia
5			Farrah Maddox
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