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2009-2012 Racing Rules of Sailing: Part 2 and Definitions
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2026-05-05
Dialing Up and Dialing Down in Team Racing
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2025-07-16
Abandoning After Boats Have Finished
3
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2026-04-14
Retraction
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2026-04-13
Let's make protesting easier
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2025-11-14
An Unruly Mark Rounding
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3.5
2025-10-16
Rule 20, blog 3
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2025-10-04
Rule 20, blog 2
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5
2025-09-03
A Flaw in Rule 20?
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2025-08-27
Rule 15 at the Start
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5
2025-07-14
What is Fair?
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5
2025-06-15
Rule 42 -- Propulsion
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2026-03-28
The Zone at the Windward Mark: Memory Lane?
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None
2026-01-06
Overton Response to "In The Zone Yet"
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4
2025-12-22
IN THE ZONE YET?
3
5
2025-11-28
RACING RULES CHANGES FOR JANUARY 1, 2026
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3
2025-11-14
WHY YOU SHOULDN'T TACK IN THE ZONE
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3
2025-08-30
Proposed Change in the Definition of Obstruction
7
5
2025-08-17
Some interesting questions regarding Rule 33
6
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2025-05-30
When a boat is "at" a mark, is she rounding it?
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2025-05-30
When a boat is "at" a mark, is she rounding it?
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2026-04-22
Summary of Important Game Changes in Section C
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2026-04-19
New Rule 23.2
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2026-04-02
Anticipation
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2026-02-16
INSIDE AT A GATE
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2026-01-14
RULE 19 BY ROB OVERTON (A long but worthwhile read)
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2026-01-06
A NOT-SO-GOOD RULE CHANGE
3
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2025-12-31
A RESPONSE TO THE QUIZ
2
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2025-12-30
BUTCH'S RULES AND A QUIZ
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2025-11-26
The new Racing Rules "Bible" has arrived!
1
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2025-11-17
Rule 18, Old and New
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5
2025-11-11
More Mark-Room by Overton
4
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2025-10-31
More Mark-Room and Egg (Perhaps?)
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2025-10-24
A LITTLE EGG (ON MY FACE) …MAYBE?
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2025-10-24
A GOOD TOOL (IF YOU'RE GOOD WITH YOUR COMPUTER)
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2025-10-21
ANOTHER RULES BLOG AND ANOTHER GAME CHANGE
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2025-10-16
NEW BOOK ON SAILBOAT RACING RULES 2009-2012
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5
2025-10-08
Posting by Rob Overton
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2025-10-01
Mark-Room
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2025-09-25
THE RACING RULES OF SAILING-new definition-ZONE
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