Yep he kind of snuck up on us. The C&C 115 is 7 feet longer than us and took 8 min to catch us which kind of tells you about his abilities. We were in the same start but a different class. If you notice in the video our sails were not luffing but his were during the incident. he had no ability to point up and in acuality he was falling down as his headsail was stalled. The J/92 can point pretty high when you need to. I edged up as he approached and he didn't get the message. No requirement to hail as the windward boat is required to keep clear. The gap closed to 3 feet and I hailed. Response of proper course irritated me a bit since skipper was supposed to have been an experienced race and former commodore of a Detroit area sailing club. I headed down when I realized a collision was imminent to comply with rule 14. We did not follow through with the protest as it was late when we got in and that we had withdrawn. Issue was that splice in multi part backstay had pulled out. I am replacing lines in the purchase, splicing and stitching the splices to prevent this from happening again. We turned down wind, dropped out and spent a half hour jury rigging a fix. Fun race, not as cold as predicted, All upwind work and reaching. We only tacked twice and gybed twice in 54 miles. I've reached out to some people that know the skipper who will explain the rules to him. I'm not sure that will make difference.
