Well, I will probably get a few "you idiot" for this but I am trying to use this as a learning experience. Backgroun - I am not a racer, but for the last few years I have entered in a local regatta that is a fund raiser for a children's hospital (good cause) about 100 boats. Well, during the regatta this past weekend my boat was involved in a relatively minor collision with another boat. Here is the scenario - approaching the finish line about 200 yards off we came about to from port to starboard to make the finish line wind about 5 kts and our speed about 2.5 mph. About 150 yards out I hear another boat off to my starboard, less than 90 degrees off my bow yelling starbard tack, I look down from monitoring my sails and see we are on a collision course with little time to react (maybe 60 feet). My helmsman cut hard to starbard and we caught them in the rear quarter putting a hole in fiberglass aft of the winches about 2 feet off the stearn. No injuries and minor damage to my bow with a hard scraping the fiberglass. Now, we were the leward (downwind boat), the other boat took no evasive action. I know my fault was not being more alert off to the sides for approaching boats. My question is given we were on the same tack and even though I was the stand-on boat, given no action by the other boat to deviate should I have turned to port as opposed to starboard. It is likely we would have bumped either way. Thoughts and recommendations, other than I should have been more aware of other boats and taken action earlier. Is it better to turn into the wind with a chance you miss or with the wind and likely hit?