There is this idiot at our Sailing club. I mistakenly tryed to cross him on Port and didn't make it in my brand new boat. He proceeds to head up and hit me in my quarter section. Shouldn't he get DSQed?????
I am the one who does the scoring and I am giving myself a DSQ for making the mistake, but I am half tempted to give him a DSQ because he could have ducked me and just said protest.
And if he headed up to collide with you, throw rule 16.1 in there for good measure...
From the "facts" given why would 16.1 be involved?
Well it was new ........Rules aside - how's the boat? ouch
Port is port, new boat or not.
Protests are clearly defined, so the "scorer" has no option to DSQ anyone because he/she feels like it.
"Yelling" at starboard? Huh? Sounds foolish to me, and not quite sportsmanlike.
Bashing starboard on the World Wide Web? real classy.
Al Russell
Maybe in future ask if you can cross when its close like that. A simple hail of CROSS? usually gets a response of carry on or no you tack. More often than not the person on starboard lets you cross as all you'll do if you tack that close is leebow them anyway.
There will always be a few people that will never let you cross, learn who they are and that will help you decide what to do when meeting them.
What ever dude!!!!!
I didn't say I wasn't in the wrong, but if I got hit for every time I was wrong I would quit this sport.
I am giving myself a DSQ for that race. I have asked the fleet captain to approach this indivdual about withdrawing from the race. If he doesn't I will file a protest. This is feasible in our club because there is no time windows in the by laws in which to file a protest.
Don't hail "tack or cross", it's not a proper hail and it's only going to tick you off when you think you deserve a response and you don't get it from some guy who knows better than to respond to that hail.
As for your situation, what you can't account for is if this guy thought that heading up, i.e. tacking, was the right thing to do to avoid collision. He may have been just as surprised as you were about the close crossing or maybe he thought you were going to tack for the line (since you said it was at the finish) and he was surprised to see your bow cross his and so he threw the helm over.
This was no light tap. It was "CRUNCH T-BONE"!!!!!
You guys should have seen the heated argument after wards where I stood in my boat in front of 20 other sailors swearing up and down at him for hitting me.
This was no light tap. It was "CRUNCH T-BONE"!!!!!
You guys should have seen the heated argument after wards where I stood in my boat in front of 20 other sailors swearing up and down at him for hitting me. And he yelled at me saying its your fault for trying to cross me.
What ever dude!!!!!
I didn't say I wasn't in the wrong, but if I got hit for every time I was wrong I would quit this sport.
I am giving myself a DSQ for that race. I have asked the fleet captain to approach this indivdual about withdrawing from the race. If he doesn't I will file a protest. This is feasible in our club because there is no time windows in the by laws in which to file a protest.
. As this was after the finish you are not governed by these but balling him out in front of everyone when you were on port is wrong even if you had grounds to protest.
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If you look at the very few on those that have been handed out over the past few years, (everyone of them is posted on US Sailing because you get banned for 2 years if you get one) you will notice they involved some pretty major stuff like boarding a boat and actually beating on someone!
Bottom line. Get past it. Talk to the guy and use the incident to grow on. Don't be a punk.
Don't hail "tack or cross", it's not a proper hail and it's only going to tick you off when you think you deserve a response and you don't get it from some guy who knows better than to respond to that hail.
As for your situation, what you can't account for is if this guy thought that heading up, i.e. tacking, was the right thing to do to avoid collision. He may have been just as surprised as you were about the close crossing or maybe he thought you were going to tack for the line (since you said it was at the finish) and he was surprised to see your bow cross his and so he threw the helm over.
He was not in the process of tacking. He hit me and spun me around .....