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 👌
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. ruclips.net/video/xDDLztijklI/видео.html
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 👌
Thanks for catching that error! We'll update the video soon.
What about gybing in the zone?
Gybing is considered the same as tacking..
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. ruclips.net/video/xDDLztijklI/видео.html