13. Laundry Lady (starboard) is sitting close-hauled with sails luffing on a not very crowded line in 10 knots. Belching Boris is starting on port and looks likely to be crossing the barely moving Laundry Lady by about one length. As the gun goes, Laundry Lady and Belching Boris are two lengths apart. Laundry Lady pulls in his sails and his boat leaps ahead, but he immediately has to bear away to avoid carving up Belching Boris.
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decision
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