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Water to gybe?
On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 08:28:33 UTC, (ChrisJ) wrote:
"R. G. Newbury" wrote in message news:JcldVHe8EppF-pn2-xNjPHsgsYqbD@Tor2...
Read Rule 18 carefully. Rule 19 does NOT apply.
OK. So you can ask for water to avoid hitting the obstruction - but
presumably only enough to avoid hitting, and not enough to sail
further away from the obstruction.
Now a slightly different situation. Also approaching the bank on port
gybe - but in an asymmetric boat. You can ask for water at the
obstruction; BUT do you need to bear away onto a dead run to be
parallel to the obstruction before you can do so??
I would say so. Remember that this rule is intended to (temporarily)
shift the burdens of avoidance, from the usual give-way boat, to the
stand-on boat, in the interests of safety. Which means that tactical
advantage is not generally a proper consequence.
So if the boat can bear away to a dead down course, and thereby avoid
coming closer to the obstruction, that would be the limit of the
avoiding action the other boat need give. In this situation, the
inside boat (by the definition of the problem) does not have to gybe.
It would like to gybe so as to sail a faster course, but in order to
do so, must require the other boat to alter its course *more than
required simply to achieve a safe situation.
Assume 2 boats are approaching a long dock wall on port. There is deep
water right to the wall. Some distance downwind, a pier sticks outs.
Windward is slightly ahead of leeward but cannot gybe. I would say
that leeward must bear off to allow windward to bear down to a
parallel course to the wall, but leeward need not gybe, until windward
reaches 2 boat lengths from the projecting pier, at which time in
order to pass the obstruction, windward (now inside with rights (cf
being inside without rights as she was)) must gybe to attain her
proper course. Outside must gybe in order to give inside room to pass.
(But leeward/outside will likely end up very nearly dead ahead of
windward/inside.
Geoff
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