Rule 11 On the Same Tack, Overlapped
Rule 16.1 Changing Course
Definitions Keep Clear
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The umpire will consider how close two boats may sail in the prevailing
conditions such that the leeward boat can both luff and bear away without immediately
making contact with the windward boat, and also how the two boats came to be
this close.
Case 1:
When X has had an opportunity to keep clear but is sailing so close to A that
any luff or bear away by A will immediately result in contact, X fails to keep
clear and breaks rule 11. Penalize X.
Case 2:
If X is not keeping clear, but the boats came to be this close as a result of
A's earlier alteration of course, to which X responded promptly, and X has since
not had an opportunity to increase the distance between the boats, then A breaks
rule 16.1, penalize A.
Case 3:
If X is keeping clear and A bears away hard, then A does not give X room to
keep clear and therefore breaks rule 16.1. Penalize A.