| Part 4 Other Requirements When Racing Part 4 rules apply only to boats racing. |
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| 40
Personal Flotation Devices; Harnesses When flag Y is displayed before or with the warning signal, competitors shall wear personal flotation devices, except briefly while changing or adjusting clothing or personal equipment. Wet suits and dry suits are not personal flotation devices. |
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| 42 Propulsion 42.1 Basic Rule Except when permitted in rule 42.3 or rule 45, a boat shall compete by using only the wind and water to increase, maintain or decrease her speed. Her crew may adjust the trim of sails and hull, and perform other acts of seamanship, but shall not otherwise move their bodies to propel the boat. 42.2 Prohibited Actions Without limiting the application of rule 42.1, these actions are prohibited: (a) pumping: repeated fanning of any sail either by pulling in and releasing the sail or by vertical or athwartships body movement; (b) rocking: repeated rolling of the boat, induced by (1) body movement,(c) ooching: sudden forward body movement, stopped abruptly; (d) sculling: repeated movement of the helm that is either forceful or that propels the boat forward or prevents her from moving astern; (e) repeated tacks or gybes unrelated to changes in the wind or to tactical considerations. 42.3 Exceptions (a) A boat may be rolled to facilitate steering. (c) Except on a beat to windward, when surfing (rapidly accelerating down the leeward side of a wave) or planing is possible, the boat's crew may pull the sheet and the guy controlling any sail in order to initiate surfing or planing, but only once for each wave or gust of wind. (d) When a boat is above a close-hauled course and either stationary or moving slowly, she may scull to turn to a closehauled course. (f) Any means of propulsion may be used to help a person or another vessel in danger. (g) To get clear after grounding or colliding with another boat or object, a boat may use force applied by the crew of either boat and any equipment other than a propulsion engine. (h) Sailing instructions may, in stated circumstances, permit propulsion using an engine or any other method, provided the boat does not gain a significant advantage in the race. Note: Interpretations of rule 42 are available at the ISAF website (www.sailing.org) or by mail upon request. |
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| 43 Competitor Clothing
and Equipment 43.1 (a) Competitors shall not wear or carry clothing or equipment for the purpose of increasing their weight. (b) Furthermore, a competitor's
clothing and equipment shall not weigh more than 8 kilograms, excluding
a hiking or trapeze harness and clothing (including footwear) worn only
below the knee. Class rules or sailing instructions may specify a lower
weight or a higher weight up to 10 kilograms. Class rules may include
footwear and other clothing worn below the knee within that weight. A
hiking or trapeze harness shall have positive buoyancy and shall not
weigh more than 2 kilograms, except that class rules may specify a
higher weight up to 4 kilograms. Weights shall be determined as
required by Appendix H.
(c) When an equipment inspector or a
measurer in charge of weighing clothing and equipment
believes a competitor may have broken rule 43.1(a) or rule 43.1(b) he
shall report the matter in writing to the protest committee. 43.2 Rule 43.1(b) does not apply to boats required to be equipped with lifelines. |
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| 44 Penalties at the Time of an Incident 44.1 Taking a Penalty A boat may take a Two-Turns Penalty when she may have broken a rule of Part 2 while racing or a One-Turn Penalty when she may have broken rule 31. Sailing instructions may specify the use of the Scoring Penalty or some other penalty. However, (a) when a boat may have broken a rule of Part 2 and rule 31 in the same incident she need not take the penalty for breaking rule 31; (b) if the boat caused injury or serious damage or gained a significant advantage in the race or series by her breach her penalty shall be to retire. 44.2 One-Turn and Two-Turns Penalties After getting well clear of other boats as soon after the incident as possible, a boat takes a One-Turn or Two-Turns Penalty by promptly making the required number of turns in the same direction, each turn including one tack and one gybe. When a boat takes the penalty at or near the finishing line, she shall return completely to the course side of the line before finishing. 44.3 Scoring Penalty (a) A boat takes a Scoring Penalty by displaying a yellow flag at the first reasonable opportunity after the incident. (b) When a boat has taken a Scoring Penalty, she shall keep the yellow flag displayed until finishing and call the race committee’s attention to it at the finishing line. At that time she shall also inform the race committee of the identity of the other boat involved in the incident. If this is impracticable, she shall do so at the first reasonable opportunity and within the time limit for protests. (c) The race score for a boat that takes a Scoring Penalty shall be the score she would have received without that penalty, made worse by the number of places stated in the sailing instructions. However, she shall not be scored worse than Did Not Finish. When the sailing instructions do not state the number of places, the number shall be the whole number (rounding 0.5 upward) nearest to 20% of the number of boats entered. The scores of other boats shall not be changed; therefore two boats may receive the same score. |
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| 45 Hauling Out; Making
Fast; Anchoring A boat shall be afloat and off moorings at her preparatory signal. Thereafter, she may not be hauled out or made fast except to bail out, reef sails, or make repairs. She may anchor or the crew may stand on the bottom. She shall recover the anchor before continuing in the race unless she is unable to do so. |
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| 46 Person in Charge A boat shall have on board a person in charge designated by the member or organization that entered the boat. See rule 75. |
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| 47 LIMITATIONS ON EQUIPMENT
AND CREW 47.1 A boat shall use only the equipment on board at her preparatory signal. 47.2 No person on board shall intentionally leave, except when ill or injured, or to help a person or vessel in danger, or to swim. A person leaving the boat by accident or to swim shall be back on board before the boat continues in the race. |
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