A blog examining the racing rules of sailing by UK-Halsey sailmakers. Comments by experts and Rules committee members such as Rob Overton and Butch Halsey.
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The 2009 ISAF Annual
Conferences are over, and there have been some changes made to future versions
of the Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS).
A few of those changes go into effect on January 1, 2010; the others won't
go into effect until we have the...
The
following two-picture sequence provides visual evidence of why tacking
in the zone at a windward mark is such a dangerous thing to do.
In the
first picture, the boat on the left is on starboard tack and the boat
on the right is...
The ISAF Section C Working Party has made two submissions to ISAF that deal with rules 18 and 19. One is an "emergency" change in the definition of Obstruction, to go into effect January 1, 2010, and the other is a proposed ISAF Case dealing with the...
During a recent day race, the Race Committee signaled a course change to the right at the leeward mark. The change mark was not in the water at that time but the original mark was still in position because it was being used by other classes. The...
There's been a new spate of discussion about when, in the
definition of mark-room, a boat is "sailing to the mark" and
when she's "at the mark".
Unlike the earlier discussion of this topic when the new rules first
came out, most of this recent...
