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One correction to Fortitude’s summary above, the protagonist boat in this finish mark encounter was in fact Fuzzy Logic, Rich Hubbell skipper. My apologies to Tuesday’s Witch, skipper & crew, for mis-identifying. Webmaster, if there is a way to edit the above Fortitude post with the correct starboard tack boat name, please do so.
On the discussion had with Dave Perry and the sketch at the beginning of this thread provided to him, it is important to note that the sketch shows the yellow port boat astern of the green port boat, but the observations of both Fortitude and Whitehawk were that both port boats were overlapped, and in turn overlapped at the Zone circle by the blue starboard boat (Fuzzy Logic). I believe Dave Perry’s comments make it clear that given these combined overlaps at the Zone circle and the closeness to the finishing pin, Fortitude owed Whitehawk room to finish, and Fuzzy Logic on starboard in turn owed “room to finish” to both Fortitude and Whitehawk.
Thanks and Mea Culpa to Tuesday’s Witch, Bill Conners.