Easy, Clean Roundings
After sailing a smart beat, it’s time to get around the weather mark without any drama.
After sailing a smart beat, it’s time to get around the weather mark without any drama.
A crowded leeward-gate rounding is a perfect opportunity to pass boats, and more often than not, the best solution is the path of least resistance.
When you’re entitled to mark-room, up to four maneuvers are allowed before you’re entitlement ends.
How the rules apply when the requirement to give mark-room begins after the boats are in the zone.
A boat can be entitled to mark-room even though she did not have an inside overlap when she reached the zone.
In part one of a series, we explore some fundamental sailboat racing rules.
Explore your rights and obligations when you have an overlap as you reach the zone around a mark in the Racing Rules of Sailing.
After sailing a smart beat, it’s time to get around the weather mark without any drama.
A crowded leeward-gate rounding is a perfect opportunity to pass boats, and more often than not, the best solution is the path of least resistance.
When you’re entitled to mark-room, up to four maneuvers are allowed before you’re entitlement ends.
How the rules apply when the requirement to give mark-room begins after the boats are in the zone.
A boat can be entitled to mark-room even though she did not have an inside overlap when she reached the zone.
In part one of a series, we explore some fundamental sailboat racing rules.
Explore your rights and obligations when you have an overlap as you reach the zone around a mark in the Racing Rules of Sailing.
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