1. THE RACING RULES OF SAILING

2. Can knowledge of the rules make you a better sailor?
Good knowledge of the rules is worth a few places every regatta
The confidence that comes with that knowledge is invaluable
Sail by the rules and insist that others do the same

3. WHAT ARE THE CHANGES? Definitions, -Finish -Keep Clear -Mark
-Mark Room
-Room
Rules,
-Rule 14
-Rule 18.2 (c2) (e)
-Rule 20
-Rule 21
-Rule 22.3
-Rule 41 (a)
-Rule 42.3
-Rule 44

4. WHAT ARE THE CHANGES? Definitions, -Finish -Keep Clear -Mark
-Mark Room
-Room
Rules,
-Rule 14
-Rule 18
-Rule 20
-Rule 21
-Rule 22.3
-Rule 41
-Rule 42.3
-Rule 44 4

5. How do you “Keep Clear”?

6. Keep Clear A boat keeps clear of a right-of-way boat
(a) If the right-of-way boat can sail her course with no need to take avoiding action and,
(b) When the boats are overlapped, if the right-of-way boat can also change course in both directions without immediately making contact.
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7. 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.
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8. Mark Room Room for a boat to leave a mark on the required side. Also,
Room to sail to the mark when her proper course is to sail close to it, and
Room to round the mark as necessary to sail the course
However, mark-room does not include room to tack unless she is overlapped inside and to windward of the boat required to give mark- room an she would be fetching the mark after her tack 8

9. Old Mark Room

10. New Mark Room
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11. “Shutting the Door”
18.2 (c) (2) if she becomes overlapped inside the boat entitled to mark-room she shall also give that boat room to sail her proper course while they remain overlapped.
16.1 When a right-of-way boat changes course, she shall give the other boat room to keep clear
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12. Proper Course?
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13. Rule 20, Room to Tack at an Obstruction
Now you can “Pass On” a Hail
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14. New Rule 21, Exoneration
When a boat is sailing within the room or mark-room to which she is entitled under a rule of Section C, she shall be exonerated if, in an incident with a boat required to give her that room or mark-room,
she breaks a rule of Section A, rule 15 or rule 16, or
she is compelled to break rule 31
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17. Butch Ulmers Rules 1. LEARN THE RULES 2. AVOID BEING PROTESTED
a. A good working knowledge of the rules is worth 2 or 3 places in a big regatta.
b. Know Part 2 of the racing rules before you start a regatta.
c. Sail by the rules and insist that others do the same.
2. AVOID BEING PROTESTED
a. Don't push tactical situations when you are the "keep clear" boat.
b. Tack sooner rather than later, duck early.
c. Avoid contact even when you're right.
d. Always give room, even when you think you don't have to.
e. When there is doubt or contact, do a penalty turn or turns.
3. STAY OUT OF THE PROTEST ROOM
a. 50% of those who go into the "room" don't like the outcome. Bad odds!
b. If there is arbitration, listen to the arbitrator and heed his advice. If he says you're going to lose, he's probably right!

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