UK-Halsey Sailmakers has posted the 24th version of their online quiz on the rules of sailboat racing. The newest quiz involves a port/starboard situation after rounding a windward mark.

This series of animated, online quizzes has been praised as an easy way to learn the rules of sail boat racing.

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The online quizzes focus on common situations often encountered in real sailboat races. The quiz makes avoid obscure, hard to repeat, situations in favor of incidents that happen again and again on the race course.

The UK Halsey quizzes offer animation to help the user visualize the situation. Viewers watch the boats move; spinnakers go up and come down; sails luff and are trimmed as well as move from side to side as the boats go around the racing marks.

When a rule or rule book defined term is mentioned a hot link allows the text of the rule or definition to be brought up in a separate window as a reference. The answers are presented in the same format a protest committee would publish a decision: First the facts found are presented followed the rule or rules broken, followed by the decision of who was at fault.

All the quizzes are free, but to see them viewers must create a login with the UK-Halsey site; some contact information is required when creating a login.

UK-Halsey Sailmakers makes sails for sailboats and has over 50 locations around the world.