CHANGES TO THE RULES OF PART 2
B2-13: WHILE TACKING
Rule 13 is changed to:
After a board passes head to wind, she shall keep clear of other boards until her sail has filled. During that time rules 10, 11 and 12 do not apply. If two boards are subject to this rule at the same time, the one on the other’s port side or the one astern shall keep clear.
B2-16.1: CHANGING COURSE OR POSITION OF EQUIPMENT
Rule 16.1 is changed to:
When a right-of-way board changes course or the position of her equipment, she shall give the other board room to keep clear.
B2-17: ON THE SAME TACK BEFORE A REACHING START
Rule 17 is changed to:
When, at the warning signal, the course to the first mark is approximately ninety degrees from the true wind, a board overlapped to leeward of another board on the same tack during the last 30 seconds before her starting signal shall not sail above her shortest course through the starting line to the first mark while they remain overlapped if as a result the other board would need to take action to avoid contact, unless in doing so she promptly sails astern of the other board.
B2-18: MARK-ROOM
B2-18.1: When Rule 18 Applies
The first sentence of rule 18.1(a) is changed to:
Rule 18 applies between boards when they are required to leave a mark on the same side and at least one of them is rounding or passing it.
B2-18.2: Giving Mark-Room
Rule 18.2(a) is changed to:
- (a) When the first of two boards is rounding or passing the mark,
- (1) if the boards are overlapped, the outside board shall give the inside board mark-room;
- (2) if the boards are not overlapped, the board clear astern at that moment shall give the other board mark-room.
When a board is required to give mark-room by rule 18.2(a), she shall continue to do so for as long as this rule applies, even if later an overlap is broken or a new overlap begins.
Rule 18.2(b) is changed to:
- (b) Rule 18.2(a) no longer applies if the board entitled to mark-room passes head to wind.
B2-18.3:
Rule 18.3 is deleted.
B2-18.4: Gybing or Bearing Away
Rule 18.4 is changed to:
When an inside overlapped right-of-way board must gybe or bear away at a mark to sail her proper course, until she gybes or bears away she shall sail no farther from the mark than needed to sail that course. Rule 18.4 does not apply at a gate mark.