Team Race - CALL H 04      

Rule 18.1 When this Rule Applies
Rule 18.2 Giving Mark-Room
Rule 21.2 Penalty Turns

Question 1
A penalized boat X on port tack is well ahead of A and within two lengths of the mark which is to be left to starboard. X then exonerates herself through an anticlockwise turn. When X completes her penalty, A is within the two-lengths zone and has an inside overlap on X. A hails for room at the mark. X gives room and protests. What should the call be?

Answer 1
No penalty.
When X leaves the zone in position 3, neither boat is in the zone and rule 18 ceases to apply. While X is taking her penalty, she is subject to rule 21.2, and is keepclear boat. When X achieves a course more than 90 from the true wind at position 4 the boats become overlapped and, when she completes her penalty at position 5, she remains keep-clear boat, now under rule 11. When one of the boats then reaches the zone, rule 18 applies again and X, as the outside boat, is also required to give A mark-room under rule 18.2(b).


Question 2
The situation is the same except that the mark is to be rounded to port. At position 5, X hails for room at the mark. A gives room and protests. What should the call be?

Answer 2
The boats are overlapped at position 5. X has completed her penalty and is required to keep clear as windward boat. Rule 18.2(a) also applies, and A must give X room to round the mark. No penalty.