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SPEED & SMARTS

SPORTSMANSHIP

This article is extracted from Speed & Smarts, a newsletter published by David

Dellenbaugh and filled with how-to information for racing sailors. Dellenbaugh,

tactician aboard the 1992 America’s Cup winner and an advisor to the German

United Internet Team for the 2007 AC, is a world champion sailor and a skilled

communicator on tactics, rules and boathandling.

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While you are making your

penalty turn you must keep clear

of all boats (eg Boat X) that are

not making penalty turns (see rule

22.2) until you have completed

your tack and gybe.

ANATOMY OF A LEGAL

ONE-TURN PENALTY

ANATOMY OF A LEGAL TWO-TURNS PENALTY

When you want to

exonerate yourself by

taking a Two- Turns

Penalty, make sure

you follow all the

requirements of rule

44 – if you don’t it’s

like you never took a

penalty at all, and then

you’d have to retire

from the race.

As long as you make

two tacks and two

gybes, you do not

have to complete a

full 720° turn. In other

words, you don’t have

to end the penalty by

returning to the exact

same course you were

on when you started

it (though usually it

happens that you do).

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