Rules In Practice 2025-2028

Additional Resources & Further Information

World Sailing Rule Changes – November 2024
This book was written once World Sailing published the new Racing Rules of Sailing in June 2024 and supplied them to Fernhurst Books and other publishers. World Sailing can make further changes to the rules at any time after that date if they are regarded as ‘urgent’ and they did make a number of changes in November 2024, after the book had been published.

Fernhurst Books communicated these changes on our website and emailed those who ordered the book from us direct. A leaflet was also placed in all books leaving our warehouse after November 2024 showing the changes. Subsequently the book has also been reprinted, and these books were available from August 2025 and contain the flash: ‘Including changes and corrections made by World Sailing as of January 1, 2025’ on the first page and first page of the rules section.

The eBook has been updated. Anyone who has purchased the eBook should receive the corrected update automatically.

For those using a physical book without the update flash we provide:

A document listing all the late changes to the rules and the Rules in Practice text as a result - click here to view and download
A document containing all the pages of Rules in Practice that have been changed as a result of World Sailing’s late changes – there are 21 of these but we believe that, for most sailors, only two of these will be of relevance - click here to view and download

Other Revised Interpretations
In addition to changes in the rules, it is inevitable that the significance of some of the changes to the rules only become apparent in use and over time. Where this happens, these are shown below: