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Follow-up to Key West Protest.

January 27th, 2009 in Monday Morning Tactician.

I’m totally astounded and impressed by the outpouring of responses from so many people. While I certainly have my own opinions about the incident, I was most happy to hear one response: “Isn’t it interesting that so many people can look at the same incident on film and still have different opinions of right and wrong?” Juries do have a hard time deciphering when two people talk about an incident that happened hours before. Even when there is photo or video evidence, the truth might not always come out.

What I think is most relevant from our conversation is that sailors really need to make sure that they make the right choices when approaching close situations. In our position, coming in from two to three boatlengths shy of the port tack layline to the pin, we did have a few options from 200 yards out. We could have:
a. ducked both starboard tackers
b. lee-bowed and risked a foul and not lay the finishing line anchor chain
c. close cross

A duck of that magnitude from our perspective would have been out of the question. We were an entire boatlength ahead of the other two boats, and would have had to start planning for the duck before Red had lee-bowed Bitipi in the final approach for the finish.

A lee-bow would have been a viable option and as you might see in the video our tactician called for the lee-bow and dropped our jib trimmer off the rail, until I told him we were crossing and sent him back out for a final hike.

The close cross was ultimately the call we chose to make.

The rules for keeping clear and avoiding contact are always very difficult ones to get around. I feel that we did keep clear. Red felt that they did avoid contact, those were facts found in the protest hearing. The rule protects the right-of-way boat, and leaves the onus squarely on the shoulders of the keep-clear boat to prove themselves innocent. The question that people need to ask themselves for their every-day boatracing is “How much distance do I consider enough to be keeping clear?” I am well aware that for some that may be 10 feet. I will point out that if we had ducked and missed those boats by 6 inches, they would not have protested us for “not keeping clear.” However in match racing a boat is keeping clear even if its bow swings over top of the other boat’s transom (check out Match Racing Call Ump7, page 17). There is a case where the boats are overlapped, taking up the same water and still keeping clear of one and other. In order to all be on the same page it might be worth having this discussion amongst your local fleet so that you’re clear with one and other and the racing can be fair and good.

I’m happy to continue the discussion in the forum of reply-posts on the site, but please keep the personal bashing out of it. Last week I wrote about how people shouldn’t take protests so seriously. There are no personal vendettas out there. Sometimes races come down to inches and need to be decided with a refresher from the rulebook. Boatracing wouldn’t be fun if we didn’t make it close every once in a while.

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125 comments.

ryan

Comment on January 29th, 2009.

class act! same for “most” of the posted comments.
Sail Fast, often, and have fun!

SteveZissou

Comment on January 29th, 2009.

Andrew,
Another great post. What I like most about these posts is that it gets the protest out in the open for debate. Too often protests, which are heated affairs by their very nature, never get discussed in the open and just sit their between two parties to stew over. Getting protests, which are usually just disagreements in the interpretation of a certain situation, out in the open allows all to learn from them–making them instructive makes the protest system helpful. Thanks.

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