Just to clear things up, there was no contact between skip and karl. There was cleary enough room for skip to sail straight and not hit anyone meaning in no way could karl be held responsible for the collision between skip and i. Or he could have rubbed hull against hull with karl doing little to no damage and karl would be at fault. Instead skip overreacted and drastically altered course bearing off trying to make the line rather than bailing like karl and in the process hitting me. Karl in no way forced skip to bear away as I mentioned before there was adequate room for skip to bail without bearing off.
My opinion is skip got flustered (as do the best of us) saw karl coming in hot which wouldn't be shocking in an f18 start, and reacted in fear turning into me.