SAILING EVENTS
Youth Regattas
Visit Southern California Youth Yacht Racing Association for information about youth regattas in our region...www.scyyra.org
We'll post results from our junior sailors' recent regattas here.
Weekly Racing Rules Quiz
...from Dave Perry's 100 Best Racing Rules Quizzes. Reprinted with permission
Boat S (on starboard tack) touches the finishing mark on her leeward side, bear away, gybes, then immediately re-crosses the finishing line on port tack and tacks to starboard tack. Ashore, S reads in the race results that the race committee has scored her 'Did not finish.' She requests redress under rule 62.1(a), Redress, and in the hearing claims that she sailed the course, took her penalty and finished correctly. You are on the protest committee, how would you decide this?
ANSWER
Uphold the scoring of the race committee. Rule 44.2, Penalties at the Time of an Incident, requires that a boat taking a penalty after touching a finishing mark return completely to the course side of the finishing line before finishing. Boat S took her penalty by making one turn that included a gybe and a tack, but she failed to then sail completely to the course side of the finishing line before crossing it, and as a result she did not finish. Rule A5, Scores Determined be the Race Committee, permits the race committee to score a boat 'Did not finish' without protesting or holding a hearing.
**Answers are based on The Racing Rules of Sailing for 2009-2012. Dave Perry's 100 Best Racing Rules Quizzes is published by the United States Sailing Association (US SAILING). For comprehensive explanation of the rules, read Dave Perry's Understanding the Racing Rules of Sailing through 2012 which also is available from US Sailing - 1 (800) 877-2451 or www.ussailing.org**
