toi said...
Appendix B to the ISAF Racing Rules of Sailing eliminates the concept of the "Zone" as applied to windsurf racing, just as the two-boatlength rule did not apply to windsurfing in the last version of the rules. There's a windsurfing version of the Racing Rules of Sailing with all of the Appendix B modifications built in on the ISAF website. There are a number of other modifications to the rules - it is worth a look. If there is an inside overlap on the final approach to the mark and the outside board can give room at the mark, then the outside board is supposed to give it. Considering that in planing formula races, you're going a gazillion miles an hour towards the leeward mark, the inside board better have the overlap somewhere around 5-10 seconds' time from the mark, keep the overlap all the way to the mark, and make sure the other person sees that.
Good point ;-)
