If you touch a mark while finishing, you need to go back to the prefinish side of the line, do your turn (one tack and one jibe) and finish (again).
and remember, you do not have any rights from the time you begin to take your penalty until you finish that penalty.
I am unclear on whether you resume your rights before 360 is turned.
Example>
if a sailor almost finishes on stbd except for that tiny whack of the mark, , tacks, and gybes, but is no where near finished with a 360 revolution ...yet... does the boat already have rights on the approaching port finishers?
Certainly the freshly starboard yacht would have to play by the usual rules applicable to other boats related to gybing and obtaining fresh right of way...
but when does the penalty end and the new right of way and necessity for the porties to begin responding commence??
You can do your turns as fast as you can before the gun, (assuming you can get clear). Hopefully you will have time to get the turns done and get a decent position on the line. Doing turns right after the gun would be death. Especially in a big fleet with good sailors.
Or you can just circle the mark and re-finish. 1 tack, 1 jibe.
It would be helpful for those that are trying to learn the rules to also note the rule number that you are referring to. I don't think you'll find one for this quote above. You can double check yourself within rule 44.Just make sure you jibe/gybe (which comes first, assuming you were on starboard tack when you touched the mark) on the pre-finish side of the line. The tack should come next.
It would be helpful for those that are trying to learn the rules to also note the rule number that you are referring to. I don't think you'll find one for this quote above. You can double check yourself within rule 44.
I don't believe any terms that are included in the definitions are really open for interpretation. The definition will tell us exactly what it is intended to mean. Keep in mind, even though you have finished, you are still racing (see definitions) until you clear the finish line; ie no longer overlapped with the mark, and still bound by the RRS.It depends on the interpretation of "finishing" (which is defined on p. 151 of the RRS
I take this to mean you could poke your bow over, get a finish and then dip back down and sail clear of the course. quote]
Absolutely!!
example: A few years ago, the North Americans were sailed in San Francisco Bay. One of the days the last mark was set aout a quarter mile directly up wind and up current frfom Alcatraz island.
The first few competitors made it across while the curent was building. By the time I got there closely followed by Chuck Tripp, crossing the line was no longer possible.
I passed just to leeward of pin and headed toward the boat. At the back end of the boat I tacked and stuck my bow up as straight and hard as I could and just barely poked it over the line. I saw Chuck come up and poke his bow just across at the pin but he wasn't sure so he kept going and did the same move I did at the boat end. He didn't even make it to the back of the boat.
The guys on the committee boat finally extended some mercy to Chuck and told him he had in fact crossed by a couple inches on the first try.
Note: The only reason I was anywhere near Chcuk at the finish was the fact I lucked into some sort of swirl of the tide and launched past about fifteen boats just on that last short weather leg. Nobody behind us finished the race.
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Hmmm...does circling the finish mark after touching it to exonerate yourself still comply with Rule 28.1 "Sailing the Course"? It's definitely much faster than re-crossing to the course side of the line to do your penalty turn and then finishing...Just make sure you jibe/gybe (which comes first, assuming you were on starboard tack when you touched the mark) on the pre-finish side of the line. The tack should come next.