It's almost always better to sail around monohulls at marks, even if you have all the rights in the world. They don't typically anticipate how fast you'll get in there, so they don't plan ahead (or react fast enough) to give you the room.
Mike
I knew somebody was going to lecture me about that.
I was in the lead and would have had to tack twice to get around him which wasn't going to do me any good.
