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Originally Posted by jrc
Dave R, why can't a sailboat tack when they are stand on? Seems like a pretty impractical interpretation of the rules. They are pretty much always stand on, so if there is a boat any where near them they can't tack?
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Stand-on and give-way only matters in a collision course, so a sailboat should be able to tack at will unless they are on collision course. Once a collision course is determined, the give-way boat should make obvious and early course corrections (I did) and the stand-on boat should maintain course and speed. Instead, this sailboat put itself on a (what appeared to be deliberate) collision course with miles of open water to play in.