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Racing Rules 2025–2028 Study Companion

Direct answer

Original visual preparation for the 2025–2028 racing-rules cycle, including right-of-way, limitations, mark-room, penalties, protests, and race signals. Compass provides independent knowledge preparation only. It does not administer an official examination, award certification, demonstrate practical competence, or replace current instructions from an authorized provider or authority. National prescriptions, class rules, notices of race, sailing instructions, and official interpretations remain separate.

Price
£19.99 once
Course size
9 modules
Access
Lifetime access
Format
Independent online study companion
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Product tour

Try the revision loop here

This is a working, course-specific sample. Read one rule, answer a real-style question, flip a recall card, and see how the next action is chosen.

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Port, starboard, and room to keep clear

One rule, explained clearly

When boats are on opposite tacks, the port-tack boat keeps clear of the starboard-tack boat. The right-of-way boat still has obligations, including giving room to keep clear when she changes course. A sound rules decision identifies the applicable rule, the boats' relative positions, and the exact moment those facts change.

Course route

Learn the knowledge, then take it afloat with an instructor

1Free

Rules, Definitions, and Sportsmanship

The documents governing an event, the rule-cycle version, core definitions, sportsmanship, fair sailing, and why defined terms control scenario interpretation.

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Port/Starboard and Windward/Leeward

Part 2 Section A right-of-way rules, tack, overlap, windward/leeward relationships, acquiring right of way, and room to keep clear.

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Starts, Recalls, and Course Signals

Preparatory and starting signals, the starting line, OCS, individual and general recalls, returning correctly, and reading visual signals with event documents.

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Mark-Room

The zone, inside and outside boats, overlap timing, giving mark-room, proper course at a mark, and transitions as boats enter and leave the rule's scope.

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Obstructions and Room to Tack

Obstruction definitions, choosing sides, room at obstructions, hailing for room to tack, response obligations, and the mark-versus-obstruction distinction.

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Contact, Penalties, and Exoneration

Avoiding contact, damage or injury, taking penalties, exoneration, compelled rule-breaking, and distinguishing an incident decision from protest-room proof.

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Protests, Redress, and Hearings

Informing another boat, protest time limits, written facts, evidence, witnesses, redress, hearings, decisions, and appeals under the applicable event process.

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Race-Management Signals

Postponement, abandonment, recalls, shortening course, course changes, finishing, committee communications, and the hierarchy between flags, sounds, and event documents.

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Animated Scenario Decisions

Time-sequenced boat relationships, changing overlaps, course changes, zones, contact risk, evidence review, and version-aware mixed decisions.

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What the companion includes

Clear knowledge and practical boundaries

  • Original lessons and explanations
  • At least 18 explained questions and 12 flashcards per module
  • Three 40-question mixed knowledge assessments
  • Worldwide terminology, jurisdiction, and primary-source context
  • Practical-awareness prompts clearly separated from assessed knowledge

Not included

  • A national licence, certificate, endorsement, or official examination
  • National inland rules, prescriptions, notices, or sailing instructions
  • Copied rulebook, chart, assessment, or official diagram content
  • A substitute for lookout, seamanship, or current local information
  • A guarantee of acceptance by an authority, club, school, or operator

Editorial record

Primary-source review

International principles are reviewed against current primary sources. National law, prescriptions, sailing instructions, equipment requirements, and local notices must be checked separately.