The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1902-07-02

her owners private signal at the main
peak.
RULE Xv.-TIME OF MAKING
RACES.
The Regatta Committee shall name
the time limit in which the races must
be sailed.
RULE xvI-POSTPONEM OF
RACES.
Tie Regatta Committee shall have
the power to postpone any race. should
unfavorable weather render such a
course desirable.
RULE XvII.-INSTRUCTI
Section 1.-The Regatta Committee
shall have the power to change the
courses or amend the instructions on or
before the day of the race, provided
notice of such change is given to each
yacht before the preparatory signal is
made.
RULE XIx-STATION BOAT.
In the absence of the Regatta Com
mittee's boat a competent person, APP
pointed by the committee, shall be at
the finish line to take the time, and
this time shall be considered final.
RULE xxII.-FITTINGS, BALLAST,
ETC.
Section Floors must be left down,
and bulkheads and doors left standing,
water-tanks in place. and at least one
bower anchor and cable kept on board;
neither ballast nor water shall be taken
IN or discharged after 8 p. m. of the
day preceding the race; but this restric-
ton may be waived, as to water only.
by permission of the Regatta Commit
tee Trimming by lightweight shall
not be allowed after the preparatory
signal.
RULE XxVII.-PROPULS
No means Of propulsion except sails
shall be employed during race.
RULE xXVIII.-LIGHTS AND FOG
SIGNALS.
All yachts sailing in a race shall OBJ
serve the u. S. Government rules in re-
gard to lights.
RULE XXIX.-START AND FINISH.
Section ALI races shall be started
by what Is known as the one-gun start,
Yachts shall have ten Q0) minutes from
signal in which to cross the line.
Sec. 1.-The time of finish shall be
taken when the point marked by the
foremost in schooners, and the main
mast in single-masted vessels and
yawls, first crosses the given line; but
If this point in any yacht be across the
her class is made, she must return and
recross the line.
Sec. "a yacht so returning, or one
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 ap-
vi, oh 70 in
volve risk of fouling, one of them shall
keep clear of the others, as follows:
Sec. 2.-On Different Points of Sail
ing.-A yacht free shall keep clear of
one close hauled.
Sec. 3.-On 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 on opposite sides, the
yacht with the wind on the port side
shall keep clear.
Sec 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 definition of Overlap.-An
overlap is established when an overtak-
ing yacht has no longer a free choice
on which side she will pass, and con-
tinues to exist as long as the leeward
yacht by luffing. or the weather yacht
by bearing away, is in danger of foul
ing.
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 fouling.
Sec. 9.-Luffing.-A yacht may huff as
she pIeases in order to prevent another
from passing her to windward. provid-
ed she begins to huff before an overlap
has been established.
Sec. 1o.-Bearing Away.-A yacht
shall not bear away out of her course
to hinder another from passing to lee
ward.
Sec. 11.-Rights on New Courses.-A
yacht shall not become entitled to her
rights on new course until she has
filled away.
Sec. 12-Converging CIosehauled.-
When two yachts. both closehauled on
the same tack, are convergfng by rea-
son of the leeward yacht holding a bet
ter wind. and neither can claim the
rights of a yacht being overtaken, then
the yacht to leeward shall keep clear.
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 outside yacht
must give the inside yacht room to
pass clear of the mark. A yacht shall
l,ct. however, be justified in attempting
to establish an overlap, and thus force
a passage between another yacht and
the mark, after the latter has altered
her helm for the purpose of rounding.
Sec. 14-Definition of Mark.-A mark
is any vessel, boat. buoy or other object
used to indicate the course, and does