Guys,

You are thinking that both boats can take "as much room as they want" as the inside boat .... but if you factor in "Port/Starboard" rights this could be interesting ...

Example: I come into the leeward gate gate on starboard and I can "take as much room as I want" so I sail past the left hand mark ... to the point that a port tacker who is planning to round the right hand mark says I do not leave him "all the room they wish" ... then the starboard boat gybes and rounds the left hand mark while the port tacker is forced "dead down wind" to avoid the collision and rounds the right hand mark eventually ....

Can I argue as the starboard boat and because I rounded the other mark that the port boat was never inside to me and I had Starboard rights

This will be interesting ....

HarryMurphey
TheMightyHobie18/#9458, Fleet54/Div11
P19MX/#86, CRAC-Open Class