E2
ADDITIONAL RULES WHEN RACING
E2.1: Hailing Requirements
- (a) A hail shall be made and repeated as appropriate so that the competitors to whom the hail is directed might reasonably be expected to hear it.
- (b) When a rule requires a boat to hail or respond, the hail shall be made by the competitor controlling the boat.
- (c) The individual digits of a boat’s sail number shall be hailed; for example ‘one five’, not ‘fifteen’.
E2.2: Giving Advice
A competitor shall not give tactical or strategic advice to a competitor controlling a boat that is racing.
E2.3: Boat Out of Radio Control
A competitor whose boat loses radio control shall promptly hail ‘(The boat’s sail number) out of control’ and the boat shall retire.
E2.4: Transmitter Aerials
If a transmitter aerial is longer than 200mm when extended, the extremity shall be adequately protected.
E2.5: Radio Interference
Transmission of radio signals that cause interference with the control of other boats is prohibited. A competitor that has broken this rule shall not race again until permitted to do so by the race committee.