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Keep Clear One boat keeps clear of another if the other can sail her course with no need to take avoiding action and, when the
boats are
overlapped
contact with the
windward
Leeward and Windward A boat's leeward side is the side that is or, when she is head to wind, was away from the wind. However,
when sailing by the lee or directly downwind, her leeward side is the side on which her mainsail lies. The other side is her
windward side. When two boats on the same
other is the windward boat.
Mark An object the sailing instructions require a boat to leave on a specified side, and a race committee vessel surrounded by
navigable water from which the starting or finishing line extends. An anchor line and objects attached temporarily or
accidentally to a
mark
Obstruction An object that a boat could not pass without changing course substantially, if she were sailing directly towards it and
one of her hull lengths from it. An object that can be safely passed on only one side and an area so designated by the sailing
instructions are also obstructions. However, a boat
keep clear
of her, give her
Overlap See
Clear Astern and Clear Ahead; Overlap.
Party A party to a hearing: a protestor; a protestee; a boat requesting redress; a boat or a competitor that may be penalized under
rule 69.1; a race committee in a hearing under rule 62.1( a).
Postpone A postponed race is delayed before its scheduled start but may be started or
Proper Course A course a boat would sail to
using the term. A boat has no proper course before her starting signal.
Protest An allegation made under rule
Racing A boat is racing from her preparatory signal until she
the race committee signals a general recall,
Room The space a boat needs in the existing conditions while maneuvering promptly in a seamanlike way.
Rule
(a) The rules in this book, including the Definitions, Race Signals, Introduction, preambles and the rules of relevant
appendices, but not titles;
(b) the prescriptions of the national authority, unless the sailing instructions state that they do not apply;
(c) the class rules, or the rules of the handicapping or rating system, except any that conflict with the rules in this book;
(d) the notice of race;
(e) the sailing instructions; and
(f) any other documents that govern the event.
Start A boat starts when after her starting signal any part of her hull, crew or equipment first crosses the starting line and she has
complied with rule
29.1
Tack, Starboard or Port A boat is on the tack, starboard or port, corresponding to her
Two-Length Zone The area around a
Windward See
Leeward and Windward.
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on the same tack, if the
leeward
boat.
tack
are not part of it.
room
or, if rule
21
applies, avoid her.
finish
as soon as possible in the absence of the other boats referred to in the rule
61.2
by a boat, a race committee or a protest committee that a boat has broken a rule.
postponement
and rule
30.1
if it applies.
mark
or
obstruction
boat can change course in both directions without immediately making
overlap, the one on the leeward side of the other is the leeward boat. The
racing
is not an obstruction to other boats unless they are required to
finishes
and clears the finishing line and
or abandonment.
within a distance of two hull lengths of the boat nearer to it.
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abandoned
later.
marks
or retires, or until
windward
side.
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