wave rules question

From: Bob Prevett (prevett@nvidia.com-DeleteThis.com)
Date: Tue Apr 09 2002 - 11:21:11 PDT 

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From: Bob Prevett <prevett@nvidia.com-DeleteThis.com>
To: "'wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com'" <wind_talk@opus.labs.agilent.com-DeleteThis.com>
Subject: wave rules question
Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 11:21:11 -0700 
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Let's say sailors A and B are at a spot like Davenport or Waddell. They are
both sailing in toward shore on port tacks, trying to get setup on a wave.
Both sailors catch the same wave at the same time; sailor A is upwind of
sailor B by about 15 feet (1 mast length). Sailor A wants to sail down the
line but sailor B does not. Sailor B wants to sail upwind, not downwind,
pinching up on the wave, sailing "backside" on the wave.

Who has the right of way given standard wavesailing rules?

I have been sailor A on a few occasions. One time, I did a bottom turn down
below sailor B to get downwave of him and then continue down the line.
Another time, sailor B went down low on the wave, so I, as sailor A, went
high to get around him. But on both occasions, if either one of us had made
the wrong call, there would have been an ugly collision, followed by
tumbling gear and sailors in the whitewater.

An even more interesting scenario is either or both sailors were actually
kitesurfers ...

Bob

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