What you have described is a "tactical rounding", not a "seaman-like rounding".
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Seaman-like means that you just have enough room to round. According to US Appeal 20, “Room is the space a boat needs to pass the mark in a seamanlike way, not the space she would take to pass the mark in a tactically desirable manner.”