"Wally" wrote in message
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N1EE wrote:
What do some sailboat racers throw overboard
just before the leeward mark?

Superfluous crew. Speaking of which, our skipper said last night that a
boat
must finish the race with the same number of crew that it started with,
which raised a couple of quesitons...

Does it have to be the same crew - can you, say, swap crew with another
boat
in mid-race?

Can the surplus ones be tipped overboard after the race starts, and picked
up just before the end?


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Interesting. Say you lose a crewmember overboard, and can't locate them. Are
you disqualified?
John Cairns