Have they finished?

[Resolution]

Most of us have hit racing marks before but this takes the biscuit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zqWOKyubJFc

Apologies if it has appeared here before, but it was new to me.

 

[flaming]

Great video that!

Short answer is yes, because that mark was not a mark of the course on that leg, so you can hit it with no penalty. Though obviously as that's a match race, and they were second, it's of little compensation!

 

[Racecruiser]

That's great - laughing loudly!

 

[WayneS]

I think that is what is called "(S)Laying the Mark'

 

[bbg]

I hate it when that happens!

 

[savageseadog]

Done the opposite recently, could be entitled "Have they Started". We hooked up on the anchor line of the committee boat, fortunately warp, we were parked up for a few minutes while we attempted to tow the massive ex fishing vessel along . It was a broad reach start and had the kite up and all. The anchor line was far too long and a cross current meant the committee boat which was at the Starboard end of the line had the warp well out to port.

 

[Birdseye]

Have a couple of times chased other boats who had hooked up a laid mark in their rudder or keel and bu66ered off down the course with it. Easy to do.

 

[DFL1010]

If you hit the anchor line (but not the buoy) then you haven't broken R31:


Mark
An object the sailing instructions require a boat to leave on a
specified side, and a race committee boat surrounded by navigable water
from which the starting or finishing line extends. An anchor line or an object
attached accidentally to a mark is not part of it.


Although if you start moving the cttee boat, then the start line's moving too so abandoning/APing may be required.

 

[savageseadog]

If you hit the anchor line (but not the buoy) then you haven't broken R31:


Mark
An object the sailing instructions require a boat to leave on a
specified side, and a race committee boat surrounded by navigable water
from which the starting or finishing line extends. An anchor line or an object
attached accidentally to a mark is not part of it.


Although if you start moving the cttee boat, then the start line's moving too so abandoning/APing may be required.

Our resident rules expert knew the rule so once we had created enough slack the the anchor warp dropped away or possibly the committee boat dropped some more, we were on our way but only after almost the entire fleet had passed us.

Video here: