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Answer:
1. The inside boat is also the right-of-way boat here (leeward) and
rule 18.2(a) states: "the outside boat shall keep clear", i.e.
Poul can take as much room as he likes. The only time an inside boat is
not entitled to take enough room for a "tactical rounding"
(e.g. wide and close at the mark) is when the outside boat is the
right-of-way boat. For instance, the outside boat could leeward (end of
a buoys-to-port triangle) or starboard (end of a buoys-to-starboard
run), and in that case, the inside boat entitled to only
enough room to make a seamanlike rounding.
2. No. Such room to keep clear is provided under rule 16.1, but rule 18.2(d) states
that rule 16 does
not apply when an inside boat changes course to round. The preamble to
Section C (rules 18 & 19) of the Rules provides that "To the extent that a Section C rule conflicts with
a rule in Section A or B, the Section C rule takes precedence."
Thus, rule 18 in this case, overrides rule 16 (a rule of Part B).
3. The timing of the gybe will be entirely at Poul's discretion because
the inside boat can round any way he likes. Rule 18.4
(gybing) requires an inside boat which "must
gybe" to make a proper course rounding. But here 18.4
will not even apply, since the next leg is a run, and proper course
does not require a gybe.
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