SECTION B   -    EQUIPMENT-RELATED REQUIREMENTS

48 LIMITATIONS ON EQUIPMENT AND CREW

48.1 A boat shall use only the equipment on board at her preparatory signal.

48.2 No person on board shall intentionally leave, except when ill or injured, or to help a person or vessel in danger, or to swim. A person leaving the boat by accident or to swim shall be back in contact with the boat before the crew resumes sailing the boat to the next mark.

49 CREW POSITION; LIFELINES

49.1 Competitors shall use no device designed to position their bodies outboard, other than hiking straps and stiffeners worn under the thighs.

49.2 When lifelines are required by the class rules or any other rule competitors shall not position any part of their torsos outside them, except briefly to perform a necessary task. However, on boats equipped with upper and lower lifelines, competitors sitting facing outboard with their waist inside the lower lifeline may have the upper part of their body outside the upper lifeline. Unless a class rule or any other rule specifies a maximum deflection, lifelines shall be taut. If the class rules do not specify the material or minimum diameter of lifelines, they shall comply with the corresponding specifications in the World Sailing Offshore Special Regulations.

Note: Those regulations are available on the World Sailing website.

50 COMPETITOR CLOTHING AND EQUIPMENT

50 COMPETITOR CLOTHING AND EQUIPMENT

50.1    (a)   Competitors shall not wear or carry clothing or equipment for the purpose of increasing their weight.

           (b)   Furthermore, a competitor’s clothing and equipment shall not weigh more than 8 kilograms, excluding a crew harness (as defined in The Equipment Rules of Sailing) and clothing (including footwear) worn only below the knee. Class rules or the notice of race may specify a lower weight or a higher weight up to 10 kilograms. Class rules may include footwear and other clothing worn below the knee within that weight. A crew harness shall have positive buoyancy in fresh water and shall not weigh more than 2 kilograms, except that class rules may specify a higher weight up to 4 kilograms. Weights shall be determined as required by Appendix H .

           (c)  A crew harness shall allow the competitor, at any time, to easily disconnect the harness from the trapeze or attachment to the boat.

50.2    Rules 50.1(b) and 50.1(c) do not apply to boats required to be equipped with lifelines.

51 MOVABLE BALLAST

All movable ballast, including sails that are not set, shall be properly stowed. Water, dead weight or ballast shall not be moved for the purpose of changing trim or stability. Floorboards, bulkheads, doors,

52 MANUAL POWER

A boat’s standing rigging, running rigging, spars and movable hull appendages shall be adjusted and operated only by the power provided by the crew.

53 SKIN FRICTION

A boat shall not eject or release a substance, such as a polymer, or have specially textured surfaces that could improve the character of the flow of water inside the boundary layer.

54 FORESTAYS AND HEADSAIL TACKS

Forestays and headsail tacks, except those of spinnaker staysails when the boat is not close-hauled, shall be attached approximately on a boat’s centreline.

55    NASADZOVANIE A PRIŤAHOVANIE PLACHIET

55.1    Výmena plachiet

Keď sa majú meniť kosatky alebo spinakre, môže sa náhradná plachta úplne nasadiť a nastaviť pred spustením plachty, ktorú nahradzuje. Ale naraz smie byť nasadená len jedna hlavná plachta a s výnimkou výmeny len jeden spinaker.

55.2    Spinakrové pne; kosatkové pne

Naraz je možné použiť len jeden spinakrový peň alebo kosatkový peň, okrem prehadzovania. Keď sú použité, musia byť upevnené na prednom sťažni.

55.3    Priťahovanie plachiet

Žiadna plachta sa nesmie priťahovať cez alebo pomocou zariadenia, ktoré vyvíja vonkajší tlak na oťaž či plachtu v bode, z ktorého by zvislica, ak je loď vzpriamená, padla mimo trupu či paluby, s výnimkou:

    (a) oťažový roh kosatky (podľa definície v Pravidlách výstroja jachtingu) smie byť pripojený ku kosatkovému pňu za podmienky, že spinaker nie je nasadený;

    (b) akákoľvek plachta smie byť priťahovaná k rahnu alebo vedená nad rahnom, ktoré sa obvykle používa pre plachtu a je trvalo upevnené na sťažeň, na ktorom je vytiahnutá hlava tejto plachty;

    (c) kosatka môže byť priťahovaná na svoje rahno, ktoré nevyžaduje žiadnu obsluhu pri obrate proti vetru; a

    (d) rahno plachty smie byť priťahované cez zadný výložník.

55    SETTING AND SHEETING SAILS

55.1    Changing Sails

When headsails or spinnakers are being changed, a replacing sail may be fully set and trimmed before the replaced sail is lowered. However, only one mainsail and, except when changing, only one spinnaker shall be carried set at a time.

55.2    Spinnaker Poles; Whisker Poles

Only one spinnaker pole or whisker pole shall be used at a time except when gybing. When in use, it shall be attached to the foremost mast spar (as defined in The Equipment Rules of Sailing).

55.3    Sheeting Sails

No sail shall be sheeted over or through any device that exerts outward pressure on a sheet or clew of a sail at a point from which, with the boat upright, a vertical line would fall outside the hull or deck, except:

    (a) a headsail clew may be connected (as defined in The Equipment Rules of Sailing) to a whisker pole, provided that a spinnaker is not set;

    (b) any sail may be sheeted to or led above a boom that is regularly used for a sail and is permanently attached to the mast from which the head of the sail is set;

    (c) ka headsail may be sheeted to its own boom that requires no adjustment when tacking; and

    (d) the boom of a sail may be sheeted to a bumkin.

55.4    Headsails and Spinnakers

For the purposes of rules 54 and 55 a Appendix G the definitions of ‘headsail’ and ‘spinnaker’ in The Equipment Rules of Sailing shall be used.

Note: The Equipment Rules of Sailing are available on the World Sailing website.

56   FOG SIGNALS AND LIGHTS; TRAFFIC SEPARATION SCHEMES; TRACKING SYSTEMS

56.1     When so equipped, a boat shall sound fog signals and show lights as required by the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea (IRPCAS), or applicable government rules.

56.2     A boat shall comply with rule 10, Traffic Separation Schemes, of the IRPCAS.

Note: Appendix TS, Traffic Separation Schemes, is available on the World Sailing website. The notice of race may change rule 56.2 by stating that Section A, Section B or Section C of Appendix TS applies.

56.3     When a rule requires a boat to be equipped with an Automatic Identification System transponder or any other tracking device, it shall not be turned off or its effectiveness intentionally reduced.