Originally Posted by mbounds
Originally Posted by Team_Cat_Fever
That being said Port always yields to Starboard Leeward or not.


Except when a port tack boat is entitled to mark room from a stbd tack boat; they are exonerated for making the stbd boat give way per Rule 18.5.

That situation happens frequently at the left-hand (looking upwind) gate mark.


But room at the mark and becoming the ROW boat are 2 different things.Port gets room not rights.

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