Taking the Speed & Smarts Rules Refresher webinar. Part of the homework was to read about:
Definition: Keep Clear
Definition: Room
Definition: Proper Course
Rule 11 On the Same Tack, Overlapped
Rule 15 Acquiring Right of Way
Rule 16 Changing Course
Preamble to Section C
This my pre-work. I made bold the words: seamanlike way. I sail with a amature crew. Things happen. The irony, is that most sailors do not get, is that things happen part does not give you rights. As long as the boat with right away does not collide, you fouled the right of way boat.
Definitions
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.
Room
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.
Proper Course
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.
PART 2 WHEN BOATS MEET
SECTION A RIGHT OF WAY
11 ON THE SAME TACK, OVERLAPPED When boats are on the same tack and overlapped, a windward boat shall keep clear of a leeward boat.
15 ACQUIRING RIGHT OF WAY When a boat acquires right of way, she shall initially give the other boat room to keep clear, unless she acquires right of way because of the other boat’s actions.
SECTION B GENERAL LIMITATIONS
16 CHANGING COURSE
16.1 In addition, on a beat to windward when a port-tack boat is keeping clear by sailing to pass to leeward of a starboard-tack boat, the starboard-tack boat shall not bear away if as a result the port-tack boat must change course immediately to continue keeping clear.
16.2 In addition, on a beat to windward when a port-tack boat is keeping clear by sailing to pass to leeward of a starboard-tack boat, the starboard-tack boat shall not bear away if as a result the port-tack boat must change course immediately to continue keeping clear.
SECTION C AT MARKS AND OBSTRUCTIONS
Section C rules do not apply between boats when the mark or obstruction referred to in those rules is a starting mark surrounded by navigable water or its anchor line, from the time the boats are approaching it to start until they have left it astern.