Here's the situation: Leeward gate rounding, looking downwind, at the gate, let's say we have three spinnaker cats coming in from the right, staggered and slightly overlapped on the port layline, and one other boat coming in on the starboard layline, on starboard gybe, but he's much further back than the first 3 who are coming in on port.

Got the picture?

Now the fist three boats are all snuffing, gybing and rounding the right hand mark as the starboard gybe boat comes in, yelling STARBOARD! He continues into the lee of leader of the pack of three rounding, going right, and takes all 3 up into each other, tapping the first boat, and causing each in turn tap each other, as he basically luffs them all up into each other up aginst the mark.

He could have easily avoided any collision, by gybing and rouding the left mark (looking downwind) but chose instead to cary on into the three others rounding the right mark.

My question is; does a starboard boat coming into the gate last, have any 'rights' over the boats in front of him, when they are all inside the 2 boat lenght circle and rounding the mark?

Luckily it was light air, speeds were slow so there was no damage, but I thought once you were inside the 2 boat length circle and rounding the mark, the whole "STARBOARD" thing was out the window?

Any rules experts out there have an answer as to who has right of way while rounding at a gate?

Thanks.