Right of Way Rules Flashcards
(21 cards)
Rule 10
Section A
Port/Starboard
ON OPPOSITE TACKS
When boats are on opposite tacks, a port-tack boat shall keep clear of a starboard-tack boat.
Port/Starboard
ON OPPOSITE TACKS
When boats are on opposite tacks, a port-tack boat shall keep clear of a starboard-tack boat.
Rule 10
Section A
Rule 11
Section A
Windward/Leeward
ON THE SAME TACK, OVERLAPPED
When boats are on the same tack and overlapped, a windward boat shall keep clear of a leeward boat.
Windward/Leeward
ON THE SAME TACK, OVERLAPPED
When boats are on the same tack and overlapped, a windward boat shall keep clear of a leeward boat.
Rule 11
Section A
Rule 12
Section A
Clear Ahead/Clear Astern
ON THE SAME TACK, NOT OVERLAPPED
When boats are on the same tack and not overlapped, a boat clear astern shall keep clear of a boat clear ahead.
Clear Ahead/Clear Astern
ON THE SAME TACK, NOT OVERLAPPED
When boats are on the same tack and not overlapped, a boat clear astern shall keep clear of a boat clear ahead.
Rule 12
Section A
Rule 13
Section A
WHILE TACKING
After a boat passes head to wind, she shall keep clear of other boats until she is on a close-hauled course.
During that time, rules 10, 11 and 12 do not apply.
If two boats are subject to this rule at the same time, the one on the other’s port side or the one astern shall keep clear.
WHILE TACKING
After a boat passes head to wind, she shall keep clear of other boats until she is on a close-hauled course.
During that time, rules 10, 11 and 12 do not apply.
If two boats are subject to this rule at the same time, the one on the other’s port side or the one astern shall keep clear.
Rule 13
Section A
Flowchart list for how to establish the Right of Way
- Is anybody tacking? Y - (Rule 13)
N - - Are you on the same tack? Y - (Rule 10)
N- - Are you Overlapped? Y - (Rule 11)
N-
(Rule 12)
How to establish which tack a boat is on
The windward side usually establishes a boat’s tack.
Tack side is ALWAYS the opposite side to that of the mainsail
There are two exceptions when the wind may hit the boat from the leeward side - when sailing dead downwind or by the lee - in these cases, you still refer to the mainsail side as the leeward side.
What does sailing by the lee’ mean
When sailing on a slightly more angled downwind course than directly downwind. The wind is coming from the stern quarter, on the same side as the mainsail.
When are you tacking
You start tacking when you go THROUGH the wind
You are not finished until you are back on close hauled on the other side.
If two boats are tacking in close proximity, who has to keep clear and what rule does this apply to?
The boat on the port side must keep clear:
‘if you’re on the right, you’ve got rights’
Rule 13, Section A
Define ‘keep clear’
A boat keeps clear of a right-of-way boat
(a) if the ROW boat can sail her course with no need to take avoiding action
(b) when the boats are overlapped, if the ROW boat can also change course in both directions without immediately making contact.
How to win a port-starboard protest
Port boat: ‘i would have crossed with no issue’
Starboard: ‘I had to change course because I thought there would be contact’
Define ‘clear astern’
One boat is clear astern of another when her hull and equipment in normal position are behind a line abeam from the aftermost point of the other boat’s hull and equipment in normal position.
Define ‘normal position’
phrase used in definition of ‘clear astern’ to stop people artificially increasing the length of their boats with spinnakers etc. If a spinnaker’s sheets have been unnaturally let out to create an overlap or the bowsprit has been stuck out for no reason, the protest committee can decide to cancel this out and instead measure from the boat’s bow.
What are the exceptions to the overlap rule?
If the boat overlapping you is also overlapping another boat on its other side, you and that third boat are also overlapping.
If both boats are sailing more than 90 degrees from the true wind you are also still ‘overlapped’
What to do if you realise you have broken a rule
Take two penalty turns -
1. Get well clear
2. Do two tacks and two gybes in the same direction.
If you only realise after racing, retire.
Rule 14
Section B
AVOIDING CONTACT
If reasonably possible, a boat shall:
(a) avoid contact with another boat,
(b) not cause contact between boats,
(c) and not cause contact between a boat and an object that should be avoided.
However, a right-of-way boat, or one sailing within the room or mark-room to which she is entitled, need not act to avoid contact until it is clear that the other boat is not keeping clear or giving room or mark-room.
You do not need contact to show a rule is broken. Sailing is a non-contact sport.
AVOIDING CONTACT
If reasonably possible, a boat shall:
(a) avoid contact with another boat,
(b) not cause contact between boats,
(c) and not cause contact between a boat and an object that should be avoided.
However, a right-of-way boat, or one sailing within the room or mark-room to which she is entitled, need not act to avoid contact until it is clear that the other boat is not keeping clear or giving room or mark-room.
You do not need contact to show a rule is broken. Sailing is a non-contact sport.
Rule 14
Section B
