DSK wrote:
Arrrgh, Racing Rules, I was gonna say No Collisions....but it was 2000
IIRC.


Jeff Morris wrote:

Nope - that rule has always been there, though not worded as strongly.
This is a case where the standon/giveway relationship got reversed.


It used to be that a boat with it's spinnaker up had ROW over a boat on
an upwind leg. This was the case up thru the mid 1960s or so... back
when it was NAYRU (and of course, dinosaurs roamed the earth)

DSK

A very good guess, but I was specifically thinking about ColRegs and its
predecessors, not the racing rules.