Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules 2021-2024

Racing Rules of Sailing

Appendix B

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Most of the rules are the same as ‘standard’ rules, except some, which are stated in RRS Appendix B – Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules;

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Is is really different from ‘standard’ rules?

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RRS Windsurfing Fleet Racing Edition�https://www.sailing.org/tools/documents/RRS20212024�WindsurfEdition1Jan2021-[27128].pdf

Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

The definition Mark-Room is deleted and replaces by;

Mark-Room for a board is room to sail �her proper course to round or pass �the mark.

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Mark-Room

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

This part of definition Mark-Room is not changed!

However, mark-room for a board does �not include room to tack unless she �is overlapped inside and to windward �of the board required to give mark-room and she would be fetching the mark after her tack.

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Mark-Room

Changes to definitions

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

A board is on the tack, starboard or port, corresponding to the competitor’s hand that would be nearer the mast if the competitor were in normal sailing position with both hands on the wishbone and arms not crossed.

A board is;

• on starboard tack when the competitor’s right hand would be nearer the mast and;
• on the port tack when the competitor’s left hand would be nearer the mast.

Tack, Starboard or Port

Changes to definitions

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• The definition Tack, Starboard or Port is deleted and replaces by;

Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

The definition ZONE is deleted.

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Zone

Changes to definitions

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

A board is rounding or passing a �mark from the time her proper course �is to begin to manoeuvre to round or pass it, until the mark has been �rounded or passed.

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Rounding or Passing

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• Add new definition Rounding or Passing as follows;

Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

A board is capsized, when she �is not under control because;

• her sail or
• the competitor

is in the water.

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Capsized

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• Add new definition Capsized as follows;

Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

No changes.

B1 Changes to the rules of Part 1

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rule 13 changed as follows:

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 others port side or
• the one astern shall keep clear.

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B2 Changes to the rules of Part 2

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RRS B13 While Tacking

Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rule 17 changed as follows

When, at the warning signal, the course �to the first mark is approximately 90 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 the shortest course 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.

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RRS B17 On the Same Tack Before a Reaching Start

B2 Changes to the rules of Part 2

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rule 18 is changed as follows

The first sentence of rule 18.1 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.

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RRS B18 Mark-Room

B2 Changes to the rules of Part 2

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rule 18.2(b) is changed as follows

2. If boards are overlapped when the first of them is rounding or passing the mark, the outside board at that moment shall thereafter give inside board mark-room.��If a board is clear ahead when she is rounding or passing the mark, the board clear astern at that moment shall thereafter give her mark-room.

RRS B18 Mark-Room

B2 Changes to the rules of Part 2

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rule 18.2(c) is changed as follows

3. When a board is required to give mark-room by rule B18.2(b), she shall continue to do so even if later an overlap is broken or a new overlap begins.

RRS B18 Mark-Room

B2 Changes to the rules of Part 2

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rule 18.2(d) is changed as follows

d) Rules 18.2(b) and (c) cease to apply if the board entitled to mark-room passes head to wind.��… leaving Zone is deleted!

RRS B18 Mark-Room

B2 Changes to the rules of Part 2

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rule 18.3 (Tacking in the Zone) is deleted.

Part 2 Rules deleted

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rule 18.4 is changed as follows

When an inside overlapped right-of-way board must gybe or bear away at the 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.

RRS B18.4 Gybing and Bearing Away

B2 Changes to the rules of Part 2

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rule 22 is changed to

22.1 If possible, a board shall avoid a � board that is capsized or has not � regained control after capsizing, � is aground, or is trying to help a � person or vessel in danger.

22.2 If possible, a board that is � capsized or aground shall not � interfere with another board.

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RRS B22 Capsized; Aground; Rescuing

B2 Changes to the rules of Part 2

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Add new Rule B23.3:

23.3 In the last minute before her starting signal;

• a board shall have her sail out of the water and
• in a normal position,
• except when accidentally capsized.

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RRS B23 Interfering with Another Board; Sail Out of Water

B2 Changes to the rules of Part 2

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rule 26 is changed to:

B26.1 System 1 (for Upwind Starts)

Races shall be started by using the following signals.��Times shall be taken from the visual

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signals; the absence of a sound signal shall be disregarded.

The warning signal for each succeeding class shall be made with or after the starting signal of the preceding class

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RRS B26 Starting Races

B3 Changes to the rules of Part 3

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rule 26 is changed to:

B26.2 System 2 (for Reaching Starts)

Races shall be started by using the following signals.��

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Times shall be taken from the visual signals; the absence of a sound signal shall be disregarded.

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RRS B26 Starting Races

B3 Changes to the rules of Part 3

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rule 26 is changed to:

B3.26.3 System 3 (for Beach Starts)

1. When the starting line is on the beach, or so close to the beach that the competitor must stand in the water to start, the start is a beach start.
2. The starting stations shall be numbered so that station 1 is the most windward one. Unless the sailing instructions specify some �other system, a board’s starting station shall be determined
1. by ranking (the highest ranked board on station 1, the next highest on station 2, and so on), or
2. by draw.

RRS B26 Starting Races

B3 Changes to the rules of Part 3

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rule 26 is changed to:

B3.26.3 System 3 (for Beach Starts)

3. After boards have been called �to take their positions, the race committee shall make the preparatory signal by displaying �a red flag with one sound. The starting signal shall be made, �at any time after the preparatory signal, by removing the red flag with one sound. ��
4. After the starting signal each board shall take the shortest route from her starting station to the water and then to her sailing position without interfering with other boards. Part 2 rules will apply when both of the competitor’s feet are on the board.

RRS B26 Starting Races

B3 Changes to the rules of Part 3

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rule 30.2 (Z Flag Rule) is deleted.

Part 3 Rules deleted

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rule 31 is changed as follows

A board my touch a mark but shall not hold on to it.

RRS B31 Touching a Mark

B3 Changes to the rules of Part 3

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rule 42 is changed as follows;

A board shall be propelled only;

• by the action of the wind on �the sail, and
• by the action of the water on �the hull.

However, pumping and fanning the sail is permitted.

The board shall not be propelled by paddling, swimming or walking.

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RRS B42 Propulsion

B4 Changes to the rules of Part 4

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rule 44 is changed to:

B44.1 Taking a Penalty

A board may take a 360°-Turn Penalty when she may have broken one of more rules of Part 2 in an incident while racing. The sailing instructions may specify the use of some other penalty. However, if the board caused injury or serious damage or, despite taking a penalty, gained a significant advantage in the race or series by her breach, her penalty shall be to retire.

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B44.2 360°-Turn Penalty

After getting well clear of other boards as soon after the incident as possible, a board takes a 360-Turn Penalty by promptly making a 360° turn with no requirement for a tack or a gybe. When a board takes the penalty at or near the finishing line, her hull shall be completely on the course side of the line before she finishes.

B4 Changes to the rules of Part 4

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RRS B44 Penalties at the Time of an Incident

Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rules 45, 48.2, 49, 50.1(c), 50.2, 51, 52, 54, 55 and 56.1 are deleted.

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Part 4 Rules deleted

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rule 60.1(a) is changed by deleting “OR SAW”

Rule 60.1(a) becomes (without “saw”);

Rule 60.1(a) A board may protest another board, but not for alleged breach of a rule of Part 2 or rule �31 unless she was involved in �the incident.

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Which means;

She may protest another board, if she was involved in the incident for a breach of a rule of Part 2 or rule 31.

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RRS B60 Right to Protest; Right to Request Redress�or Rule 69 Action

B5 Changes to the rules of Part 5

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

The rule 61.1(a) is changed to:

The protesting board shall inform the other board at the first reasonable opportunity.

When her protest will concern an incident in the racing area, she shall hail “Protest” at the first reasonable opportunity.

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�She shall also inform the race committee of her intention to protest as soon as practicable after she finishes or retires. However.

1. …
2. no red flag need be displayed
3. …
4. …

RRS B61 Protest Requirements

B5 Changes to the rules of Part 5

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Add to rule 61.2:

This rule does not apply to a race in an elimination series that will qualify a board to compete in a later stage of an event.

RRS B61.2 Protest Contents

B5 Changes to the rules of Part 5

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rule 62.1(b) is changed to:

2. injury, physical damage or capsize because of the action of
1. a board that broke a rule of Part 2 and took the appropriate penalty or was penalized, or
2. a vessel not racing that was required to keep clear.

RRS B62 Redress

B5 Changes to the rules of Part 5

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Add to Rule 63.6:

However, for an elimination series race that will qualify a board to compete in a later stage of an event, protests and requests for redress need not be in writing;

They shall be made orally to a member of protest committee as soon as reasonably possible following the race.

The protest committee may take evidence in any way it considers appropriate and may communicate its decision orally.

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B5 Changes to the rules of Part 5

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RRS B63 Hearings

Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rule 64.4(b) is changed to:

(b) When the protest committee is in doubt about a matter concerning the measurement of a board, the meaning of a class rule, or damage to a board, it shall refer its questions, together with the relevant facts, to an authority responsible for interpreting the rule. In making its decision, the committee shall be bound by the reply of the authority.

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B5 Changes to the rules of Part 5

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RRS B64 Decisions

Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Add to Rule 65.2:

This rule does not apply to a race in an elimination series that will qualify a board to compete in a later stage of an event

B5 Changes to the rules of Part 5

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RRS B65 Informing the Parties and Others

Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rules 70.5 and 70.5(a) are changed to:

There shall be no appeal from the decisions of an international jury constituted in compliance with Appendix N, and no appeal from the decision of the protest committee for a race in an elimination series that will qualify a board to compete in a later stage of an event.

Furthermore, if a Notice of Race or Sailing Instructions so state, the right of appeal may be denied provided that

(a) It is essential to determine promptly the result of a race that will qualify a board to compete in a subsequent event (a National Authority may prescribe that its permission is required for such a procedure);

B5 Changes to the rules of Part 5

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RRS B70 Appeals and Re quests to a National Authority

Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Add to rule 78.1:

When so prescribed by World Sailing, a numbered and dated device on a board and her centreboard, fin and rig shall serve as her measurement certificate.

RRS B78 Compliance with Class rules; Certificates

B6 Changes to the rules of Part 6

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

The last sentence of rule 90.2(c) is changed to:

Oral instructions may be given only if the procedure is stated in the sailing instructions.

RRS B90 Race Committee; Sailing Instructions; Scoring

B7 Changes to the rules of Part 7

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rule A1 is changed to:

The number of races scheduled �and the number required to be completed to constitute a series �shall be stated in the Notice of �Race or Sailing Instructions.

If an event includes more than one discipline or format, the Notice of Race or Sailing Instructions shall state how the overall scores are to be calculated.

RRS B8 A1 Number of Races; Overall Scores

B8 Changes to Appendix A

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Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rule A2.1 is changed to:

Each board’s series score shall, subject to rule 90.3(b), be the total �of her race scores excluding her

1. worst score when from 5 to 11 races have been completed, or
2. two worst scores when �12 or more races have �been completed.

However, the Notice of Race or Sailing Instructions may make a different arrangement. A race is completed if scored; see rule 90.3(a).)

If a board has two or more equal worst scores, the score(s) for the race(s) sailed earliest in the series shall be excluded.

The board with the lowest series score wins and others shall be ranked accordingly.

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RRS B8 A2.1 Series Scores

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B8 Changes to Appendix A

Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rule A8 is changed to:

A8.1 If there is a series-score tie between two or more boards, each board’s excluded race scores shall be listed in order of best to worst, and at the first point(s) where there is a difference the tie shall be broken in favor of the board(s) with the best excluded race score(s).

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A8.2 If a tie remains between two or more boards, each board’s race scores, including excluded scores, shall be listed in order of best to worst, and at the first point(s) where there is a difference the tie shall be broken in favour of the board(s) with the best score(s). These scores shall be used even if some of them are excluded scores.

RRS B8 A8 Series Ties

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B8 Changes to Appendix A

Windsurfing Fleet Racing Rules

Rule A8 is changed to:

A8.3 If a tie still remains between two or more boards, they shall be ranked in order of their scores in the last race.

Any remaining ties shall be broken by using the tied boards’ scores in the next-to-last race and so on until all ties are broken.

These scores shall be used even if some of them are excluded scores.

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RRS B8 A8 Series Ties

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B8 Changes to Appendix A

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