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Answer:
If you want to defend your wind these days, it is
wise to do so
decisively before the other boat gets an overlap or
even too close to
getting
one. In this position, Roger will soon be hamstrung
by rule 16.1:
"When
a
right-of-way boat changes course, she shall give
the other boat room
to keep clear."
If
the two boats get much closer
together laterally than they are here, they will
soon reach the
"locked" position in which neither boat can change
course without
fouling the other, something that is strategically
unacceptably
limiting. Moreover, a protest arising from this will
be a 50-50
proposition even from the best of Committees. What I
do instead, is
- go low and not bother
defending my wind with the preferred
goal of out-speeding my windward opponent, or
- I go well high as (s)he
approaches from astern and I make
it amply clear that I intend to make life
miserable for anyone who
tries my windward side. I do the latter only in
rare instances when it
is strategically unavoidable.
Apologies for drifting from rules into strategy!
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