Appendix C
MATCH RACING RULES
possible, bear away to a course that is more than ninety degrees from the true wind. (b) (c) Add to rule 2: ‘When racing, a boat need not take a penalty unless signalled to do so by an umpire.’ A boat completes a leg of the course when her bow crosses the extension of the line from the previous mark through the mark she is rounding, or on the last leg when she finishes. A penalized boat shall not be recorded as having finished until she takes her penalty and sails completely to the course side of the line and then finishes, unless the penalty is cancelled before or after she crosses the finishing line. If a boat has one or two outstanding penalties and the other boat in her match is penalized, one penalty for each boat shall be cancelled except that a red-flag penalty shall not cancel or be cancelled by another penalty. If a boat has more than two outstanding penalties, the umpires shall signal her disqualification under rule C5.4.
(d)
(e)
(f) C7.3
Penalty Limitations (a) A boat taking a penalty that includes a tack shall have the spinnaker head below the main-boom gooseneck from the time she passes head to wind until she is on a close-hauled course. No part of a penalty may be taken inside the zone of a rounding mark that begins, bounds or ends the leg the boat is on. If a boat has one outstanding penalty, she may take the penalty any time after starting and before finishing. If a boat has two outstanding penalties, she shall take one of them as soon as reasonably possible, but not before starting. When the umpires display a red flag with or soon after a penalty flag, the penalized boat shall take a penalty as soon as reasonably possible, but not before starting.
(b) (c)
(d)
C7.4
Taking and Completing Penalties (a) When a boat with an outstanding penalty is on a leg to a windward mark and gybes, or is on a leg to a leeward mark or the finishing line and passes head to wind, she is taking a penalty.
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