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55.
On a dead run to the finish, Fearsome Flosser,
Bicuspid and Rum
Line are approaching the finish line in about 3 knots of breeze and
flat water. All three are going to finish at the RC boat end. As shown at
left, Bicuspid and Rum Line are overlapped on starboard tack. Fearsome Flosser is on port tack and calls for
room at the RC boat about 5 lengths from the line because she is overlapped
with Bicuspid.
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Bicuspid denies room to Fearsome Flosser
on the grounds that the RC boat is
not a mark. "In any case," says Bicuspid,
"to give room to Fearsome Flosser,
I would have to make Rum Line move, and
you're not entitled to make Rum Line do
that since you are not overlapped with Rum Line!"
Fearsome Flosser nearly hits both Bicuspid and the RC boat before gybing away
and doing a full circle to try again. Fearsome
Flosser immediately lodges a valid protest. When Fearsome Flosser finally limps across the
line, she has fallen from 3rd place to 24th in a closely packed fleet off
Toronto. Fearsome Flosser also files a
protest asking for redress.
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