Hobie University, NAHCA
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31 Mar 02
3.
If the starting line is the same as the finish line, then the same end that was favored at the start is the same end
for the finish.
False. The favored end for the start is the end furthest up wind and the favored end to finish
is the end furthest down wind, or the opposite end from the start.
4.
On the way downwind, you can usually check the finish line to find out the favored end and favored tack.
True. Wind shifts or movement of the start / finish line by the race committee may change the favored end,
check it on your last down wind leg.
5.
Always finish in the middle of the line.
False. If you finish in the middle of the line and the line is not
perpendicular to the wind, then you sailed further than you had to finish. Try this finishing technique; if you
leave C mark and stay on port tack then sail until you are on a lay line to the pin end and tack. Sail towards
the pin until you are on the layline to the committee boat and decide which end of the line is closer. If the pin
is closer, keep on sailing to the pin end of the finish line, otherwise tack and finish at the committee boat end.
If you leave C mark on starboard tack, just reverse the approach.
6.
On an Olympic Gold Medal Course, the finish line is at the end of the weather leg and you have no way of
knowing the favored end. In this case, you tack on the inside lay line, and when abeam of the other end of the
finish line determines the favored end and favored tack.
True. This is the process that I just explained for
question 5.
7.
Your are on port tack and heading for the favored end and you are on the favored tack, but here comes a
starboard boat. You should slow your boat down, wait for him to clear, then accelerate for the line.
True.
The starboard boat will have to travel further to cross the line because he is not on the favored tack and
secondly, ducking a single boat does not cost much time or distance
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