Michael the person who posted about a hand held whisker pole sails on Lake Lanier, GA. He described using a hand-held boat hook to pole out his genoa. Nobody from the Rocky Mountain region posted about that.
The RSA for the Rocky Mountain region (SAIL, http://rmsail.org ) follows the RRS and doesn't impose any rules of its own, and delegates to the SIs of its member clubs. Colorado Sail and Yacht Club's SIs (https://csyc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/2016-CSYC-Spring-Summer-SIs.pdf) follow the RRS and don't modify anything to do with equipment (or navigation rules, or signal flags, or right of way rules, referring to an earlier post of yours). We keep clear of stationary or trolling fishermen with fishing lines out as a courtesy. So IMO your disparagement of this region is unfounded. In fact I remember one time during the summer of 2013 when High Cotton was RC. It was a completely dead-air, glassy-water night at the time of the J/22 start sequence. I was on Rick Fox's Merit 25 Gypsy Breeze, in the start sequence after the J/22s. We were trying to get out of the way of the J/22 start and had to fend off the committee boat, as we were making absolutely no headway and had absolutely no steerage. You disqualified us for "hitting the RC boat", which was completely inappropriate for several reasons: first, we weren't racing at that moment as defined by the RRS; second, if we had been racing the penalty for touching a mark (which the RC boat is) is taking a single turn, not a DSQ; and third, our boats didn't touch. Not to mention the general friendliness and sportsmanship aspects of the whole thing. Perhaps you should brush up on the rules and facts before making and communicating judgements. BTW you never answered my question in the earlier thread: do you own a C&C now? Regards, Randy Stafford S/V Grenadine C&C 30-1 #7 Ken Caryl, CO ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Cotton via CnC-List" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> To: "cnc-list" <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> Cc: "Michael Cotton" <mpc51...@yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, August 8, 2016 1:10:22 AM Subject: Re: Stus-List Finally Won a Race now reaching strut This is sailing in the Rocky Mountain region. Their sailing rules are quite different from anywhere else I've sailed. I sailed there for a few years. Prior to coming to Colorado I sailed under YRALIS (Long Island Sound) and NBYA (Narragansett Bay) rules for over 20 years. Not surprised a hand held whisker pole is legal under Rocky Mountain sailing. Sent from my iPhone
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