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A few more from the weekend -

Thanks Chris for the information I was hoping not to receive! Having raced for many years under the old rule where you had to retire if you infringed a rule and having witnessed many examples of superb sportsmanship from some of the country's best skippers, I had hoped that the penalty turn system might have persuaded competitors that an infringement could be offset without the ultimate penalty of retirement. Presumably in this instance everyone involved took the view that they were not at fault so a multiboat pileup was perfectly acceptable. Congratulations again for the excellent pictures.

Nigel, I'm not sure whether there was actualy any contact between the boats / mark. The picture was taken with a 400mm lens on a crop frame Canon camera (equivalent to a 640mm lens on old fashioned 35mm ). This causes everthing to become compressed and boats to appear closer than they actually were. The following is a picture taken 1.75 seconds later and clearly shows gaps between the boats / marks -

Chris. How many turns were done by how many boats at mark X or are barging encounters going unpunished? Excellent pictures by the way, Chris and Jeremy.
 

A grand total of zero.

A few pictures from today -