Rule 11, On the Same Tack, Overlapped
Rule 64.1(c), Decisions: Penalties and Exoneration
A protest committee must exonerate boats when, as a result of another boat’s breach of a rule, they are all compelled to break a rule.
Summary of the Facts |
Decision
Both appeals are upheld. MW and ML are to be reinstated. Both of them, by their
hails, attempted to avoid having to bear away, and neither bore away before
becoming obligated to do so to avoid contact with the boat immediately to windward.
Rule 14 required them to avoid contact if it was ‘reasonably possible’
to do so, and they complied with the rule. Each of them broke rule 11, but each
was compelled to do so because W broke rule 11. Therefore, each of them is entitled
to exoneration under rule 64.1(c).
USSA 1950/37