Team Race - CALL C 03      

Rule 21.1 Starting Errors
Rule 23.2 Interfering with Another Boat

Question
After the start X is sailing on port tack from the course side of the starting line without having started. Boat A has started correctly and bears away below her proper course onto a collision course with X. X protests.
What should the call be?

Answer
Penalize A. X and A are not on the same leg of the course. Therefore when A bears away below her proper course and interfere with X, she breaks rule 23.2.


A boat that, after the starting signal, is sailing towards the pre-start side of the line without having started correctly, is not on the same leg of the course as boats that has started. If the umpires are not certain whether or not a boat that is sailing toward the starting line after the starting signal has started correctly, they will use the principle of ‘last point of certainty’. In such cases the umpires will assume the boat has not started until they are certain that she has.