Happy New Year! With the change to 2021 we get to embrace a new set of rules for this Olympiad. Not to worry, there are not too many changes that affect us in the Martin fleet everyday races, mostly just clarifications, but there’s a few little changes that are interesting, so you might want to read up…
Here’s a good summary of the changes from 48° North:
https://48north.com/racing/racing-technique/racing-rules-changes-for-2021/
Other Links:
‘Official’ World Sailing rule book (free download!):
https://www.sailing.org/documents/racingrules/
There’s also a ‘study version’ at this site that makes it easy to see what changed.
Sail Canada prescriptions:
https://www.sailing.ca/rules-prescriptions/
See you in the 2021 protest room! (hopefully not)
Pop Quiz for bonus points:
This flag now means something if flown by a race committee, what is it?
(Hint: it does not mean 'race to the bar for a beer')