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Red Baron's Racing Rules DiscussionBBSA Sailors, Racing rules seminars are occurring over the winter months and racing begins again in April with a new set of rules for 2025-2028. (See World Sailing Racing Rules 2025-2028). With that in mind, I have read the 2025-2028 racing rules and made changes to the presentations below and included a summary of the changes for a navigation fix prior to people diving into the new rules for a review and for the changes. Note: 2025-2028 Rules Change Update (John McCarthy) on February 8 will also cover the changes and reenforce some of the rules critical to racing. In the document links below, I highlighted key words in red font and added some comments in blue font to help explain various points. Diagrams were also added to help explain some of the rules since the rules have no diagrams of boats maneuvering. Orange lines were added to the port margin to highlight the rules that have changed with the 2025-2028 rules (new item). I carefully researched with the help of some experienced sailors to avoid mistakes but always appreciate any feedback to help improve the project as we will keep it as a reference and then update as required over the next four years. As slides are updated, you will find the documents below annotated with ***update***. Hope you find this useful as we all strive to become better sailors. Edward (Red) Baron Racing Rules of Sailing 2025-2028 (Baron Notes)
| NEW - Rules of the Road (COLREGS)As a follow-up to the Racing Rules, Red has now started offering tips on the Navigational Rules of the Road, commonly referred to as the COLSREGS. These apply while racing so be sure you know the rules. Red will be providing regular tip sheets below.
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