Can someone post the relevent cases? I can't seem to download them on my computer.

I'm not interested in any public pissing match. I am interested in Relevent cases and rules to this situation. I'm also interested in opinions from people at what point (how many boat lengths) a starboard boat should have to hold course. My view is at about 12 boat lengths the starboard boat should hold course (in this situation) till about 5 boat lengths when a collision is imminent.

I'm also interested in how two people can see the same situation through different perspectives.

I have no idea if you were on the layline or not. In the end when you tacked how far from the layline were you? However that doesn't really have any bearing on the rules in this situation.

Here are some numbers to crunch:
Closing speed is 40 feet/second given 18mph for starboard and 10mph for port. So to close the 25 boat lengths is 12.5 seconds.

The only rule I'm aware of that comes into play here is the following: 10, 16.1, 16.2

I don't mind hashing it out a little for all to learn from including myself.

Mike Hill