Dave Perry, because the chair of a World Crusing Racing Guidelines Committee working occasion, is on a mission to simplify Rule 18 (Mark-Room). However he wants assist… right here’s his pitch:
Indubitably, essentially the most difficult rule within the rule e-book is Rule 18, Mark-Room. It’s the rule that applies when boats are rounding or passing marks. The World Crusing Racing Guidelines Committee has commissioned a Rule 18 Working Occasion made up of worldwide sailors and guidelines specialists to try to discover methods to simplify Rule 18 with out considerably altering the way in which the sport is at present being performed.
We are actually on the lookout for fleets who could be keen to check a brand new Rule 18 between Could 1 and July 15, 2022. The check would come with a packet with the check rule and supporting data, a Zoom session with a member of the Rule 18 WP for all of the contributors earlier than the testing started, and a follow-up Zoom session on the finish of the check interval for the contributors to share their experiences, ideas and options.
Any fleets, golf equipment, crusing organizations or lessons, and many others. keen to assist the Rule 18 WP by testing a brand new rule 18, please contact me at [email protected].
Right here’s Rule 18 as at present written within the 2021-2024 Racing Guidelines of Crusing:
18 MARK-ROOM
18.1 When Rule 18 Applies
Rule 18 applies between boats when they’re required to go away a mark on the identical facet and a minimum of one in all them is within the zone. Nevertheless, it doesn’t apply:
(a) between boats on reverse tacks on a beat to windward,
(b) between boats on reverse tacks when the correct course on the mark for one however not each of them is to tack,
(c) between a ship approaching a mark and one leaving it, or
(d) if the mark is a seamless obstruction, wherein case rule 19 applies.
Rule 18 now not applies between boats when mark-room has been given.
18.2 Giving Mark-Room
(a) When boats are overlapped the skin boat shall give the within boat mark-room, except rule 18.2(b) applies.
(b) If boats are overlapped when the primary of them reaches the zone, the skin boat at that second shall thereafter give the within boat mark-room. If a ship is clear forward when she reaches the zone, the boat clear astern at that second shall thereafter give her mark-room.
(c) When a ship is required to offer mark-room by rule 18.2(b),
(1) she shall proceed to take action even when later an overlap is damaged or a brand new overlap begins;
(2) if she turns into overlapped contained in the boat entitled to mark-room, she shall additionally give that boat room to sail her correct course whereas they continue to be overlapped.
(d) Guidelines 18.2(b) and (c) stop to use if the boat entitled to mark-room passes head to wind or leaves the zone.
(e) If there’s affordable doubt {that a} boat obtained or broke an overlap in time, it shall be presumed that she didn’t.
(f) If a ship obtained an inside overlap from clear astern or by tacking to windward of the opposite boat and, from the time the overlap started, the skin boat has been unable to offer mark- room, she shouldn’t be required to offer it.
18.3 Passing Head to Wind within the Zone
If a ship within the zone of a mark to be left to port passes head to wind from port to starboard tack and is then fetching the mark, she shall not trigger a ship that has been on starboard tack since coming into the zone to sail above close-hauled to keep away from contact and she or he shall give mark-room if that boat turns into overlapped inside her. When this rule applies between boats, rule 18.2 doesn’t apply between them.
18.4 Gybing
When an inside overlapped right-of-way boat should gybe at a mark to sail her correct course, till she gybes she shall sail no farther from the mark than wanted to sail that course. Rule 18.4 doesn’t apply at a gate mark.
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