Rules that Limit the Right-of-Way Boat Flashcards
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Rule 15
Section B
ACQUIRING RIGHT OF WAY
When a boat acquires right of way, she shall initially give the other boat room to keep clear, unless she acquires right of way because of the other boat’s actions.
ACQUIRING RIGHT OF WAY
When a boat acquires right of way, she shall initially give the other boat room to keep clear, unless she acquires right of way because of the other boat’s actions.
Rule 15
Section B
Define ‘room’
The space a boat needs in the existing conditions, including space to comply with her obligations under the rules of Part 2 and rule 31, while manoeuvring promptly in a seamanlike way.
What are ‘the rules of Part 2’?
Part 2 rules refer to Section 2 rules of The Racing Rules of Sailing, and apply to racing boats in the racing area.
What is important about the wording of Rule 15?
The word ‘initially’ - the ROW boat is required to ‘initially give the other boat room to keep clear’, but if the keep clear boat does not respond and move, they will soon be in the wrong.
If you are gaining on a boat to their leeward side and establish an overlap, what changes and what should you do?
As the overlap is established, you gain right of way.
In doing so, Rule 15 comes into action. You must initially give the keep clear boat room to avoid you.
You are sailing behind another boat on their leeward side when they bear away. On this new angle, you are on a collision course and within an overlapping distance. Who has ROW, and what should you do?
In this scenario, the other boat had right of way while it was sailing ahead and not overlapping with you.
When the other boat bears away and comes into overlap with you, you then have right of way as the leeward boat.
However, because this scenario was created by the other boat, Rule 15 dictates that you have no obligation to give the other boat initial room to keep clear.
Your only obligation is to Rule 14 - to avoid contact when it seems like a collision is likely.
Rule 31
Part 3
TOUCHING A MARK
While racing, a boat shall not touch a starting mark before starting, a mark that begins, bounds or ends the leg of the course on which she is sailing, or a finishing mark after finishing.
TOUCHING A MARK
While racing, a boat shall not touch a starting mark before starting, a mark that begins, bounds or ends the leg of the course on which she is sailing, or a finishing mark after finishing.
Rule 31
Part 3
Rule 16.1
Section B
CHANGING COURSE
When a right-of-way boat changes course, she shall give the other boat room to keep clear.
CHANGING COURSE
When a right-of-way boat changes course, she shall give the other boat room to keep clear.
Rule 16.1
Section B
Rule 16.2
Section B
CHANGING COURSE
On a beat to windward when a port-tack boat is keeping clear by sailing to pass to leeward/astern of a starboard-tack boat, the starboard-tack boat shall not bear away if as a result the port-tack boat must change course immediately to continue keeping clear.
CHANGING COURSE
On a beat to windward when a port-tack boat is keeping clear by sailing to pass to leeward/astern of a starboard-tack boat, the starboard-tack boat shall not bear away if as a result the port-tack boat must change course immediately to continue keeping clear.
Rule 16.2
Section B
Rule 17
Section B
ON THE SAME TACK; PROPER COURSE
If a boat clear astern becomes overlapped within two of her hull lengths to leeward of a boat on the same tack, she shall not sail above her proper course while they remain on the same tack and overlapped within that distance, unless in doing so she promptly sails astern of the other boat.
Before the starting signal, a boat has no proper course
ON THE SAME TACK; PROPER COURSE
If a boat clear astern becomes overlapped within two of her hull lengths to leeward of a boat on the same tack, she shall not sail above her proper course while they remain on the same tack and overlapped within that distance, unless in doing so she promptly sails astern of the other boat.
Before the starting signal, a boat has no proper course
Rule 17
Section B
What does OCS stand for
“On Course Side”
This means a boat is considered to have started a race prematurely by being on the wrong side of the starting line when the starting signal is given.
Rule 21.1
Section D
STARTING ERRORS
A boat sailing towards the pre-start side of the starting line or one of its extensions after her starting signal to start or to comply with rule 30.1 shall keep clear of a boat not doing so until her hull is completely on the pre-start side.
*When this rule applies, Section A rules (right of way rules 10,11,12,13) do not apply! *
STARTING ERRORS
A boat sailing towards the pre-start side of the starting line or one of its extensions after her starting signal to start or to comply with rule 30.1 shall keep clear of a boat not doing so until her hull is completely on the pre-start side.
*When this rule applies, Section A rules (right of way rules 10,11,12,13) do not apply! *
Rule 21.1
Section D
Rule 30.1
Part 3
I Flag Rule
If flag I has been displayed, and any part of a boat’s hull is on the course side of the starting line or one of its extensions during the last minute before her starting signal, she shall sail across an extension so that her hull is completely on the pre-start side before she starts.
I Flag Rule
If flag I has been displayed, and any part of a boat’s hull is on the course side of the starting line or one of its extensions during the last minute before her starting signal, she shall sail across an extension so that her hull is completely on the pre-start side before she starts.
Rule 30.1
Part 3
Describe the I Flag
Yellow square with a black dot
Rule 21.2
Section D
TAKING PENALTIES
A boat taking a penalty shall keep clear of one that is not.
*When this rule applies, Section A rules (right of way rules 10,11,12,13) do not apply! *
TAKING PENALTIES
A boat taking a penalty shall keep clear of one that is not.
*When this rule applies, Section A rules (right of way rules 10,11,12,13) do not apply! *
Rule 21.2
Section D
Rule 21.3
Section D
BACKING A SAIL
A boat moving astern, or sideways to windward, through the water by backing a sail shall keep clear of one that is not. (Not applicable in Match Racing)
*When this rule applies, Section A rules (right of way rules 10,11,12,13) do not apply! *
