For those skippers who may need to brush up on the rules, the web sites below are full of excellent animated rule situations that are fun to explore:

<font color="blue">http://www.ukhalsey.com/RulesQuiz/index.asp
http://www.finckh.org/rspiel/indexe.htm </font id="blue"> (courtesy of Chicago MYC)

Dave Dellenbauch's news letter and book information on rules can be located at <font color="blue">http://www.speedandsmarts.com/</font id="blue">

The ISAF site: <font color="blue">http://www.sailing.org/default.asp?MenuID=t62wGX28zoMoD~`RtK/DVn19A_h90KAM,S`l`FhHqDPicu~`zD3v4Ieebmcj,Xek7Act02</font id="blue"> gives limited interpretations of some rule technicalities. (cut and paste this one to get it right)

US Sailing also offers a "call book" with interpretations of the rules in a downloadable PDF file at <font color="blue">http://www.sailing.org/rrs2005/casebook2005.pdf</font id="blue">

Keep yourself out of the protest hearings by knowing both your rights as well as your obligations under the RRS