Hailing Requirements

1. Protest
2. Room at obstruction
3. Out of control

1. Boats beating to windward on opposite tacks: Starboard tack boat can not fall below a close hauled course to cause a port tack boat to further change course to avoid it. Sometimes called hunting.
2. While on the same tack a come from behind boat that overlaps a windward boat to leeward, within 2 hull lengths abeam,cannot cause the windward boat to change it's proper course.
3. A boat sailing off wind to a mark that normally requires a jibe to make the rounding must sail a proper course to the mark, within the zone, and make a proper rounding. Exception: Does not apply at a gate mark.

1. A boat tacking from head to wind to a close hauled course has no rights during this maneuver. Luffing rights are permitted during the first half of the tack.
2. A boat returning (closing the gap) to a starting line or it's extensions, to restart, must keep clear of all boats not returning.
3. A boat taking a penalty has no rights over any boats not taking a penalty. Other boats are not allowed to purposely alter course to interfere with the boat taking the penalty.