The boat that touched no one got disqualified — how?

Name: "STARBOARD!" — But the Wrong Boat Got Disqualified
Uploaded: 2026-06-07T12:00:00+12:00
Description: The boat that touched no one got disqualified — how? When a right-of-way (starboard) boat is an obstruction, Rule 19.2(b) makes the outside overlapped boat give the inside boat room to pass it. Refuse, and the inside boat — denied her room — is exonerated under Rule 43.1(b), while the outside boat that never made contact is the one penalised, under Rule 19.2(b) and Rule 14.

When a right-of-way (starboard) boat is an obstruction, Rule 19.2(b) makes the outside overlapped boat give the inside boat room to pass it. Refuse, and the inside boat — denied her room — is exonerated under Rule 43.1(b), while the outside boat that never made contact is the one penalised, under Rule 19.2(b) and Rule 14.

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The boat that touched no one got disqualified — how?

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