Rule 13 While Tacking
Rule 18.2 Giving Mark-Room
Rule 18.5 Exoneration
Definitions Mark-Room
Question 1 Answer 1 |
Question 2 Answer 2 |
Question 3
Will answers 1 and 2 be the same if X had been clear ahead at the zone.
Answer 3
Yes.
When a boat is entitled to mark-room, room for her to sail her proper
course at the mark does not include room to tack unless, when at the mark, she
is overlapped to windward and on the inside of the other boat. This is true
whether or not the boats were overlapped at the zone.
If contact occurs when a windward inside boat tacks at the mark, the contact
may be evidence that the outside boat failed to give the inside boat the room
she needed to tack.