PART 4
OTHER REQUIREMENT WHEN RACING
Part 4 rules apply only to boats racing unless the rule states otherwise.
40 PERSONAL FLOTATION DEVICES
When flag Y is displayed with one sound before or with the warning signal, competitors shall wear personal floatation devices, except briefly while changing or adjusting clothing or personal equipment. When flag Y is displayed ashore, this rule applies at all times while afloat. Wet suits and dry suits are not personal flotation devices.
41 OUTSIDE HELP
A boat shall not receive help from any outside source, except
(a) help for a crew member who is ill, injured or in danger;
(b) after a collision, help from the crew of the other vessel to get clear;
(c) help in the form of information freely available to all boat;
(d) unsolicited information from a disinterested source, which may be another boat in the same race.
However, a boat that gains a significant advantage in the race from help received under rule 41(a) may be protested and penalized; any penalty may be less than disqualification.
42 PROPULSION
42.1 Basic Rule
Except when permitted in rule 42.3 or 45, a boat shall compete by using only the wind and water to increase, maintain or decrease her speed. Her crew may adjust the trim of sails and hull, and perform other acts of seamanship, but shall not otherwise move their bodies to propel the boat.
42.2 Prohibited Actions
Without limiting the application of rule 42.1, these actions are prohibited:
(a) pumping: repeated fanning of any sail either by pulling in and releasing the sail or by vertical or athwartship body movement;
(b) rocking: repeated rolling of the sails or centerboard, or
---(1) body movement,
---(2) repeated adjustment of the sails or centerboard, or
---(3) steering;
(c) ooching: sudden forward body movement, stopped abruptly;
(d) sculling: repeated movement of the helm that is either forceful or that propels the boat forward or prevents her from moving astern;
(c) repeated tacks or gybes unrelated to changes in the wind or to tactical considerations.
42.3 Exceptions
(a) A boat may be rooled to facilitate steering.
(b) A boat's crew may move their bodies to exaggerate the rolling that facilitates steering the boat through a tack or a gybe, provided that, just after the tack or gybe is completed, the boat's speed is not greater than it wold have been in the absence of the tack or gybe.
(c) Except on a beat to windward, when surfing (rapidly accelerating down the fron of a wave) or planing is possible, the boat's crew may pull in any sail in order to intitiate surfing or planing, but each sail may be pulled in only once for each wave or gust of wind.
(d) When a boat is above a close-hauled course and either stationary or moving slowly, she may scull to turn to close-hauled course.
(e) If a batten is inverted, the boat's crew may pump the sail until the batten is no longer inverted. This action is not permitted if it clearly propels the boat.
(f) A boat may reduce speed by repeatedly her helm.
(g) Any means of propulsion may be used to help a person or another vessel in danger.
(h) To get clear after grounding or colliding with a vessel or object, a boat may use force applied by her crew or the crew of the other vessel and any equipment orther than a propulsion engine. However, the use of an engine may be permitted by rule 42.3(i).
(i) Sailing instructions may, in stated circumstances, permit propulsion using an engine or any other method, provided the boat does not gain a significant advantage in the race.
Note: Interpretations of rule 42 are avilable at the World Sailing website or by mail upon request.
43 COMPETITOR CLOTHING AND EQUIPMENT
43.1 (a) competitors shall not wear or carry clothing or equipment for the purpose of increaing their weight.
(b) Furthermore, a competitor's clothing and equipment shall not weigh more than 8 kilograms, excludeing a hiking or trapeze harness and clothing (includeing footwear) worn only below the knee. Class rules or sailing instructions may specify a lower weight or a higher weight up to 10 kilograms. Class rules may include footwear and other clothing worn below the kneww within that weight. A hiking or trapeze harness shall have positive bouyancy and shall not weigh more than 2 kilograms, except that class rules may specify a higher weight up to 4 kilograms. Weights.shall be determined as required by Appendix H.
43.2 Rule 43.1(b) does not apply to boats required to be equipped with lifelines.
44 PENALTIES AT THE TIME OF AN INCIDENT
44.1 Take a Penalty
A boat may take a Two-Turns Penalty when she may have broken one or more rule of Part 2 in an incident while racing. She may take a One-Turn Penalty when she may have broken rule 31. Alternatively, sailing instructions may specify the use of the Scoring Penalty or some other penalty, in which case the specified penalty shall replace the One-Turn and the Two-Turns Penalty. Hower,
(a) when a boat may have broken a rule of Part 2 and rule 31 in the same incident she need not take the penalty for breaking rule 31;
(b) if the boat caused injury or serious damange or, despite taking a penalty, gained a significant advantage in the race or series by her breach her penalty shall be to retire.
44.2 One-Turn and Two-Turns Penalties
After getting well clear of other boats as soon after the incident as possible, a boat take a One-Turn or Two-Turns Penalty by promptly making the required number of turns in the same direction, each turn including one tack and one gybe. When a boat takes the penalty at or near the finishing line, she shall sail completely to the course side of the line before finishing.
44.3 Scoring Penalty
(a) A boat takes a Scoring Penalty by displaying a yellow flag at the first reasonable opportunity after the incident.
(b) When a boat has taken a Scoring Penalty, she shall keep the yellow flag disp0layed until finishing and call the race committee's attention to it at the finishing line. At the time she shall also inform the race committee of the impracticable, she shall do so at the first reasonable opportunity and within the protest time limit.
(c) The race score for a boat that takes a Scoring Penalty shall be the score she would have received without that penalty, made worse by the number of places stated in the sailing instructions. When the sailing instructions do not state the number of places, the penalty shall be 20% of the score for Did Not Finish, rounded to the nearest whole number (0.5 rounded upward). The scores of other boats shall not be changed; therefore, two boat may receive the sam score, However, the penalty shall not cause the boat's core to be worse than the score for Did Not Finish.
45 HAULING OUT; MAKING FAST; ANCHORING
A boat shall be afloat and off moorings at her preparatory signal. Thereafter, she shall not be hauled out or made fast except to bail out, reef sails or make repair. She may anchor or the crew may stand on the bottom. She shall recover the anchor before continuing in the race unless she is unable to do so.
46 PERSON IN CHARGE
A boat shall have on board a person in charge designated by the member or organization that entered the boat. See rule 75.
47 LIMITATIONS ON EQUIPMENT AND CREW
47.1 A boat shall use only the equipment on board at her preparatory signal.
47.2 No person on board shall intentionally leave, except when ill or injured, or to help a person or vessel in danger, or to swim. A person leaving the boat by accident or to swim shall be back on board before the boat continues in the race.
48 FOG SIGNALS AND LIGHTS; TRAFFIC SEPARATION SHCEMES
48.1 When safety requires, a boat shall sound fog signals and show lights a required by the international regulations for preventing collisions at sea (IRPCAS) or applicable government rules.
48.2 a boat shall comply with rule 10, Traffic Separation Schemes, of the IRPCAS.
49 CREW POSITION; LIFELINES
49.1 Competitors shall use no device designed to prosition their bodies outboard, other than hiking straps and stiffeners worn under the thighs.
49.2 When lifelines are required by the class rules or any other rule, competitors shall not position any part of their torsos outside them, except briefly to perform a neccessary task. On boat equipped with upper and lower lifelines, a competitor sitting on the deck facing outboard with his waist inside the lower lifeline may have the upper part of his body outside the upper lifeline. Unless a class rule or any other rule specifies a maximum deflection, lifelines shall be taut. If the class rules do not specify the material or minimum diameter of lifelines, they shall comply with the corresponding specifications in the World Sailing Offshore Special Regulations.
50 SETTING AND SHEETING SAILS
50.1 Changing Sails
When headsails or spinnakers are being changed, a replacing sail may be fully set and trimmed before the replaced sail is lovered. However, only one mainsail and, except when changing, only one spinnaker shall be carried set at a time.
50.2 Spinnaker Poles; Whisker Poles
Only one spinnaker pole or whisker pole shall be used at a time except when gybing. When in use, it shall be attached to the foremost mast.
50.3 Use of Outriggers
(a) No sail shall be sheeted over or through an outrigger, except as permitted in rule 50.3(b) or 50.3(c). An outrigger is any fitting or other device so placed that it could exert outward pressure on a sheet or sail at a point from which, with the boat upright, a vertical line would fail outside the hull or deck. For the pupose of this rule, bulwarks, rails and rubbing strakes are not part of the hull or deck and the following are not outriggers: a howsprit used to secure the tak of a sail, a bumkin used to sheet the coom of a sail or a boom of a boomed headsail that requires no adjustment when tacking.
(b) Any sail may be sheeted to or led above a boom that is regularly used for a sail and is permanently attached to the mast from which the head of the sail is set.
(c) A headsail may be sheeted or attached at its clew to a spinnaker pole or whisker pole, provided that a spinnaker is not set.
50.4 Headsails
For the puposes of rules 50 and Appendix G, the difference between a headsail and a spinnaker is that the width of headsail, measured between the midpoints of its luff and leech, is less than 75% of the length of its foot. A sail tacked down behind the foremost mast is not a headsail.
51 MOVABLE BALLST
All movable ballast, including sail that are not set, shall be properly stowed. Water, dead weight or ballast shall not be moved for the purpose of clanging trim or stability. Floorboards, bulkhead, doors, stair and water tanks shall be left in place and all cabin fixtures kept on board. However, bilge water may be bailed out.
52 MANUAL POWER
A boat's atanding rigging, running rigging, spars and movable hull appendages shall be adjusted and operated only by the power provided by the crew.
53 SKIN FRICTION
A boat shall not eject or release a substance, such as a polymer, or have specially textured surfaces that could improve the character of the flow of water inside the boundary layer.
54. FORESTAYS AND HEADSAIL TACKS
Forestays and headsail tacks, except those of spinnqker staysails when the boat is not close-hauled, shall be attached approximately on a boat's centreline.
55 TRASH DISPOSAL
A competitor shall not intentionally put trash in the water. This rule may be less than disqualification.
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