PRE-READ for Part 3 Racing Rules Webinar 2025
Notes:
Where to get a copy of the rule book:
World Sailing - Racing Rules of Sailing
Rule 18.3 Tacking in the Zone
If a boat passes head to wind from port to starboard tack in the zone
of a mark to be left to port, rule 18.2 does not apply between her and
another boat on starboard tack that is fetching the mark. If the other
boat has been on starboard tack since entering the zone, the boat that
passed head to wind
(a) shall not cause the other boat to sail above close-hauled to
avoid contact, and
(b) shall give mark-room if the other boat becomes overlapped
inside her.
Rule 17 On the Same Tack; Proper Course
If a boat clear astern becomes overlapped within two of her hull
lengths to leeward of a boat on the same tack, she shall not sail
above her proper course while they remain on the same tack and
overlapped within that distance, unless in doing so she promptly sails
astern of the other boat.