Rule 18 - Mark-Room, Part 3: Passing Head to Wind in the Zone and Gybing at a Mark
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This video covers what you need to know about Rule 18.3 and 18.4, with video, animations, and questions and answers. See more at SailZing.com. Updated to 2021-2024 rules.
Rule 18.3 - Passing Head to Wind in the Zone
“If a boat in the zone of a mark to be left to port passes head to wind from port to starboard tack and is then fetching the mark, she shall not cause a boat that has been on starboard tack since entering the zone to sail above close-hauled to avoid contact and she shall give mark-room if that boat becomes overlapped inside her. When this rule applies between boats, rule 18.2 does not apply between them.”
For 2021, World Sailing changed the title of this rule from “Tacking in the Zone” to “Passing Head to Wind in the Zone.” The change aligns the title with the language in the rule.
Rule 18.4 - Gybing
“When an inside overlapped right-of-way boat must gybe at a mark to sail her proper course, until she gybes she shall sail no farther from the mark than needed to sail that course. Rule 18.4 does not apply at a gate mark.”
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It helped me understand this rule too.
Is it tactically legal if yellow is on starboard, close hauled and below the layline and enters the zone after, or at the same time as blue, who is on a port tack and fetching the mark, (yellow has to tack to port to make the mark on a port rounding after forcing blue off course) and forces blue to tack to starboard to avoid collision sending blue upwind of the mark's layline?
There's a likely mistake in the dialogue at 3:20. It says "tacked from starboard to port" but it should be "port to starboard". But in all other instances these videos are excellent 👌
@SailZing
3 жыл бұрын
Thanks for catching that error! We'll update the video soon.
What about gybing in the zone?
@SailZing
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Gybing is considered the same as tacking..
@evilpinkfloyd
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Blue comes to leeward mark on starboard well ahead of yellow (no overlap). Blue had to take mark wide to give to room to inside over lapped boats. Blue gybes to port and then continues turning up wind. Yellow still on starboard gybe (coming in fast) tries to cut inside of blue. Blue says you have no mark room. Yellow says starboard implying they are the right-of-way boat and then continues to round inside of blue, and eventually gybes. Blue keeps clear but is blocked from coming up to propper coarse (still near mark in 3-boat circle). Should blue protest yellow for not giving mark room? Does port/starboard apply or does mark room apply?
Excellent breakdown. I had forgotten the 18.4 does not apply in a gate scenario. Here's a good real life GoPro that shows a 18.3 situation. kzread.info/dash/bejne/qnh4rtytmc3RnKw.html