sk8ingsailor
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I was recently at the junior olympics, and in 5th or 6th place downwind. There was another sailor behind me who was trying to cover me. I kept swerving back and forth to try to get him to stop covering me. Thinking my mission was complete, I headed DDW. The other sailor released he could not pass to leeward, so he tried to go to windward. In this process, he hit my rudderhead very lightly, but still enough to notice. Mind you we were about 5-6 boatlengths infront of another 5-6 boats. He could have had easily done his turns and not lost many places. I didn't say anything just because I didn't want to be "that guy". This is not the only time this has happened to me, and no other sailors seem to bother doing their turns. What gives? Neither of us were in contention for first, second or third, but we both did place in the top ten. I would expect him to have done his turns, especially since we were both doing fairly well.