(a) A penalized boat may delay taking a penalty within the limitations of
rule C7.3
and shall take it as follows:
(1) When on a leg of the course to a windward
mark
, she shall gybe and, as soon as reasonably possible, luff to a close-hauled course.
(2) When on a leg of the course to a leeward
mark
or the finishing line, she shall tack and, as soon as reasonably possible, bear away
to a course that is more than ninety degrees from the true wind.
(b) Add to
Rule 2
: 'When
racing
, a boat need not take a penalty unless signalled to do so by an umpire.'
(c) A boat completes a leg of the course when any part of her hull crosses the extention
of the line from the previous
mark
through the
mark
she is rounding; or on the last leg when she
finishes
.
(d) A penalized boat shall not be recorded as having
finished
until she takes her penalty and her hull is completely on the course side of the line
and she then
finishes
,
unless the penalty is cancelled before or after she crosses the finishing line.
(e) If a boat has one or two outstanding penalties and the other boat in her match is
penalized, one penalty for each boat shall be cancelled except that a red-flag penalty shall
not cancel or be cancelled by another penalty.
(f) If one boat has
finished
and is no longer
racing
, and the other boat has an outstanding penalty, the umpires may cancel the outstanding penalty.