"Check the definition of "mark room"."
Scooby, I did, that's what led me to my conclusion (port inside has to go around the port mark without taking extra distance).
Are you trying to suggest something else?
Mike
YES, The definition is "Room for a boat to sail to the
mark, and then too to sail her
proper course while at the
mark. However, mark
room does not include room to tack....."
No mention of anything but
proper course; we should all know that proper course is the course we would sail to finish quickest etc...; we also should know that this in wide and out tight.
Seamanship rounding is no longer part of the definition of the "mark room"/"room" concept and so we can make a tactical rounding WITHIN the bounds of the proper course limitations.
Thus we cannot use
mark room to sail someone off the side of the course, but we do have the ability to make a
tactical rounding.
