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From: Jay Wadsworth 
To: 'uncle-al@home.com' 
Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 7:58 PM
Subject: Rules quiz
 

Excuse the crudity of my drawing.
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We were finishing on a beam reach and we were the leeward boat carrying the big red assymetrical kite, whereas the windward boat had gone to white sails.  We were overtaking, had established our overlap from clear astern and were about 3 meters from the windward boat. 

At this point the windward boat bore away suddenly, forcing us to come off rapidly to avoid contact and collapsing our chute, allowing the windward boat to accelerate and finish ahead of us.

We didn't protest because my skipper said we didn't have "luffing rights" since we had established the overlap from clear astern.  I think my skipper is wrong... even if we couldn't luff him, could he sail down on us like that?

Could we have protested successfully?

Thanks.

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