Rule B2: CHANGES TO THE RULES OF PART 2

Section B — Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Windsurfing fleet races (including marathon races) shall be sailed under The Racing Rules of Sailing as changed by this appendix. The term ‘boat’ elsewhere in the rules means ‘board’ or ‘boat’ as appropriate. A marathon race is a race intended to last more than one hour.

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CHANGES TO THE RULES OF PART 2

13: WHILE TACKING

Rule 13 is changed to:

After a board passes head to wind, she shall keep clear of other boards until her sail has filled. During that time rules 10, 11 and 12 do not apply. If two boards are subject to this rule at the same time, the one on the other’s port side or the one astern shall keep clear.

16.1: CHANGING COURSE OR POSITION OF EQUIPMENT

Rule 16.1 is changed to:

When a right-of-way board changes course or the position of her equipment, she shall give the other board room to keep clear.

17: ON THE SAME TACK BEFORE A REACHING START

Rule 17 is changed to:

When, at the warning signal, the course to the first mark is approximately ninety degrees from the true wind, a board overlapped to leeward of another board on the same tack during the last 30 seconds before her starting signal shall not sail above her shortest course through the starting line to the first mark while they remain overlapped if as a result the other board would need to take action to avoid contact, unless in doing so she promptly sails astern of the other board.

18.1: When Rule 18 Applies

The first sentence of rule 18.1(a) is changed to:

Rule 18 applies between boards when they are required to leave a mark on the same side and at least one of them is rounding or passing it.

18.2: Giving Mark-Room

Rule 18.2(a) is changed to:

(a) When the first of two boards is rounding or passing the mark,
- (1) if the boards are overlapped, the outside board shall give the inside board mark-room;
- (2) if the boards are not overlapped, the board clear astern at that moment shall give the other board mark-room.

When a board is required to give mark-room by rule 18.2(a), she shall continue to do so for as long as this rule applies, even if later an overlap is broken or a new overlap begins.

Rule 18.2(b) is changed to:

(b) Rule 18.2(a) no longer applies if the board entitled to mark-room passes head to wind.

18.3:

Rule 18.3 is deleted.

18.4: Gybing or Bearing Away

Rule 18.4 is changed to:

When an inside overlapped right-of-way board must gybe or bear away at a mark to sail her proper course, until she gybes or bears away she shall sail no farther from the mark than needed to sail that course. Rule 18.4 does not apply at a gate mark.

22: CAPSIZED; AGROUND; RESCUING

Rule 22 is changed to:

22.1 If possible, a board shall avoid a board that is capsized or has not regained control after capsizing, is aground, or is trying to help a person or vessel in danger.

22.2 If possible, a board that is capsized or aground shall not interfere with another board.

23: INTERFERING WITH ANOTHER BOARD; SAIL OUT OF WATER

Add new rule 23.3:

23.3 In the last minute before her starting signal, a board shall have her sail out of the water and in a normal position, except when accidentally capsized.

Definitions in Context

Clear Astern and Clear Ahead; Overlap

One boat is clear astern of another when her hull and equipment in normal position are behind a line abeam from the aftermost point of the other boat’s hull and equipment in normal position. The other boat is clear ahead. They overlap when neither is clear astern. However, they also overlap when a boat between them overlaps both. These terms always apply to boats on the same tack. They apply to boats on opposite tacks only when rule 18 applies between them or when both boats are sailing more than ninety degrees from the true wind.

Keep Clear

A boat keeps clear of a right-of-way boat

(a) if the right-of-way boat can sail her course with no need to take avoiding action and,
(b) when the boats are overlapped, if the right-of-way boat can also change course in both directions without immediately making contact.

Leeward and Windward

A boat’s leeward side is the side that is or, when she is head to wind, was away from the wind. However, when sailing by the lee or directly downwind, her leeward side is the side on which her mainsail lies. The other side is her windward side. When two boats on the same tack overlap, the one on the leeward side of the other is the leeward boat. The other is the windward boat.

Mark

An object the sailing instructions require a boat to leave on a specified side, a race committee vessel surrounded by navigable water from which the starting or finishing line extends, and an object intentionally attached to the object or vessel. However, an anchor line is not part of the mark.

Mark-Room

Room for a boat

(a) to sail to the mark when her proper course is to sail close to it,
(b) to round or pass the mark on the required side, and
(c) to leave it astern.

Proper Course

A course a boat would choose in order to sail the course as quickly as possible in the absence of the other boats referred to in the rule using the term. A boat has no proper course before her starting signal.

Room

The space a boat needs in the existing conditions, including space to comply with her obligations under the rules of Part 2 and rule 31, while manoeuvring promptly in a seamanlike way.

Start

A boat starts when, her hull having been entirely on the pre-start side of the starting line at or after her starting signal, and having complied with rule 30.1 if it applies, any part of her hull crosses the starting line from the pre-start side to the course side.

Tack, Starboard or Port

A boat is on the tack, starboard or port, corresponding to her windward side.