PART 3
‘The ends of the starting line in rules 30.1, 30.2, 30.3 and 30.4 are those specified in the sailing instructions, and not any limit or distance mark, unless the sailing instructions explicitly change rule 301
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start, and likewise in a U flag or black flag start, both Yellow and Blue are rightly penalised for being in the triangle whose base is masts at each end of the starting line in the last minute, even though they are not in a triangle whose base is that part of the line between limit marks on which they have to start.
Rule 26 offers the combination of flags I and Z as penalty preparatory signals. The effect of the combination is that, if there is no general recall, a boat will have both a bad start after having to cross an extension from windward, and then a place penalty on top – and if there is a general recall, the penalty will apply to the race when it is got away2
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of the different penalty areas for each rule, the Z-flag element will not apply to a boat that is OCS outside the triangle. With this complication in mind, sailing instructions sometimes modify the I flag penalty area to be the same as for the Z and black flag.
If a boat is detected in the penalty zone of a Z flag start, both when in a start that is then recalled, and again at its restart3 penalty4
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, a second 20% place penalty (ZFP) is incurred, and because of rounding and a maximum value of the , the value of the two penalties may not be the same as one 40% place penalty.
The fact that a boat was over the line at her starting signal, resulting in a 20% place penalty, does not relieve her of her obligation to return and start. If she does not do so, she will be scored OCS5
When a boat is in the penalty zone in the last minute, and there is a general recall, the fact that the next attempted start of the race is postponed or abandoned before the starting signal does not prevent the penalty being carried forwards to the successful starting of the race. The carry-forward would cease to apply only if the postponement or abandonment had happened in the rest of the one-minute period of the race in which she incurred the penalty6
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1 2004/9 2 WS 111 3 See below for the meaning of various terms in rules 30.2, 30.3 and 30.4. The penalty is carried forwards also when a race is ‘resailed’ after
post-start abandonment, and when there is a further general recall or post-start abandonment. Only a pre-starting-signal abandonment or postponement can negate a ZFP, UFD or BFD arising from that race, and it will not wipe out a penalty carried forwards from a previous start,
which will continue to apply to the race when it is finally started and completed 4 See rule 44.3(c) and further guidance under Appendix A: rule 44.3(c) has been slightly changed 5 Technically, the 20% penalty still applies, but its value cannot make a boat worse than DNF – see rule 44.3(c) – and when scoring under
Appendix A the scores in A 4.2 for DNS, OCS and DNF are the same 6 WS 111
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