Andrew, it would really help to hear the specifics. Since the boats in our distance races are usually REALLY spaced out across the Gulf and/or bay, the only place where interactions should occur would have been in the narrow pass. Constrained by light air, strong currents, abrupt shoal edges, etc., the truthful and realistic boat-to-boat interaction would probably not just be a port/starboard problem. You can scream STARBOARD all you want at a boat who has no wind, no steerage, and pinned against a lee shore.

Not many whiners in our group. I wonder who it could be?