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Green and Yellow have tacked over to port, and are now beating, still
overlapped, towards the starboard tack layline.
At an appropriate point, they need to tack back onto starboard in order to
round the mark.
| The inside boat is: |
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| The overlap was: |
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Here is one possible outcome as the boats reach the starboard tack layline.
| During the sequence, the leeward boat is: |
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Before clicking on a letter to see what we think, decide for yourself if
you think the statements are true or false...
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Yellow had not passed head to wind when contact occurred, so she
has not broken RRS 18.2(a). |
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Green failed to respond to Yellow's luff, so she broke RRS 18 by
failing to manoeuver promptly when required. |
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Green has right of way, and is not obliged to tack to round
the mark. She may choose to carry on. |
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Yellow was too close to Green to start to luff. |
2018-06-23 |
