The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-10-26


working into position from the wrong
side of the line after the signal for the
start has been made, must keep clear
Of and give way to, all competing
yachts.
RULE XXX.-RIGHT OF WAY.
Section 1.-When one yacht is approach
ing another yacht so as to involve risk
of fouling, one of them shall keep clear
OF the other, as follows:
Sec. 2.-On Different Points of Sailing.
a yacht free shall keep clear of one
close hauled.
Sec. Son Same Point of Sailing, with
Wind on Opposite Sides-When both
yachts are close-hauled or both free, or
both have the wind aft and have the
wind opposite sides, the yacht with
the wind on the port side shall keep
clear.
See 4.-On Same Point of Sailing, With
Wind on Same Side.-When both yachts
are free, or both have the wind aft and
have the wind on the same side, the
yacht to the windward shall keep clear.
Sec. 5.-Wind Alta yacht with the
wind aft is deemed to have the wind on
the side opposite to that ON which she
is carrying her main BOOM A yacht with
the wind aft shall keep clear of a yacht
on any other point of sailing.
Sec. 6.-Overtaking.-An overtaking
yacht shall, in every case, as long as
an overlap exists, keep clear of the
yacht which is being overtaken.
Sec. 7.-Defnition of Overlap.-An over
lap is established when an overtaking
yacht has no longer a free choice on
which side she will pass and continues
to exist as long as the leeward yacht by
luffing, or the weather yacht by bearing
away, is in danger of fouling.
Sec. S.-Altering Course.-When, of two
yachts. one is obliged to keep clear, the
other shall not so alter her course as to
involve risk of fouIing.
Sec. 9.-Luffing.-A yacht may huff as
she pIeases in order to prevent another
from passing her to windward, provided
she begins to huff before an overlap has
been established.
Sec. 1O.-Bearing Away.-A yacht shall
not bear away out of her course so as
to hinder another in passing to leeward.
Sec. u.-Rights on New Courses.-A
yacht shall not become entitled to her
rights on new course until she has
filed away.
See 12.-Converging Closehauled.-
When two yachts, both closehauled on
the same tack, are converging by reason
of the leeward yacht holding better
wind, and neither can claim the rights
of a yacht being overtalxen, then the
y
Sec. 13.-Passing and Rounding Marks.
If an overlap exists between two yachts
when both of them, without lacking, are
about to pass a mark on the required
side, then the outside yacht must give
the the inside yacht room to pass clear
of the mark. A yacht shall not, how
ever, be justified in attempting to estab-
lish an overlap, and thus force passage
between another yacht and the mark,
after the latter has altered her helm for
the purpose of rounding.
Sec. H.-Definition of Mark.-A mark
is any vessel, boat, buoy or other object
used to indicate the course. and does
not, in the preceding section, involve any
question of sea room.
Sec Redistribution to Sea Room
When a yacht is in danger of running
aground, or of touching pier, rock or
other obstruction, and cannot go clear
by altering her course without fouling
another yacht, then the latter shall, on
being hailed by the former, at once give
room; and in case one yacht is forced
to tack or bear away in order to give
room, the other shall also tack or bear
away. as the case may be, at as near the