Oh Sorry, yes the fact is that at the time the boats met it was too late, he had already put himself in 2nd place, most people don't realise that the tactical decisions that decide places actually occur well before they become apparent on the race course, and as such they tend to arrive at a situation that the outcome is already deided, and it is pot luk whether or not they come out on top, if the other guy has his thinking head on well before the crises occurs he will win every time