More than to gain the test, Match RACE consists of beating your adversary. Not only you must be fastest, but also most capable. The route has a maximum distance of 18.55 miles in length and a maximum of 3 returns in a route of type windward-leeward) taking the beacons by starboard. The route is delimited by a beacon to windward and the door, two placed beacons one of another one approximately six lengths, to leeward. The exit and the arrival are the same point, to leeward of the route.

   The sections between the beacons have the minimum length so that the boat must demonstrate to ability and strategy and that the result does not depend only on the speed that can reach, but sufficiently long so that the success does not depend only on the ability and the position reached in the exit, but also on the speed that can reach.

  Three parts in Match RACE are considered; the pre-exit, the count down until the exit pistol shot, the first section, from the exit to the first beacon that is more or less one sixth part of the route, and the rest to crossing the line of impact.

   The pre-exit has a great importance since it is the moment for obtaining the race head. To cross the line of exit first not always is decisive. It is necessary to consider the election of the favored side of the line, as well as the power to turn and to control your position immediately once given the exit pistol shot. It is necessary to consider to that side is going to be first role after the exit to choose that side of the route is necessary to protect.

   If you go ahead you must block the opportunities of your adversary for adelantarte placing the boat between him and the next beacon. If you go behind, you must try that your opposing one commits a failure or to secure a situation in which your greater speed allows to advance to him.

   During the route they have been gotten up determined elements to give the opportunity to the advancements. The windward beacon is left by starboard which gives an opportunity if the boats are very stuck and the rights of way of the Rules of Regatas come near to the beacon by the right of the field of regatas to realize the advancement being had in account. The door to leeward by which there is to pass and to choose one to begin the fitted section of, is another opportunity to realize the advancement being chosen the beacon chosen by its opponent and thus not to begin the following section of the race with a lateral separation escaping of the marking that did to him. Another aid for the boat located to stern is that the arrival is realized to leeward in stern.

   In the sections in fitted, the boat of ahead marks the tactics marking and desventando to its follower controlling the situation, on the contrary in the stern sections it is the other way around, the located boat behind has a more advantageous position covering the wind to which it goes ahead which gives the opportunity to advance him to him.

   The last section of Match RACE is always in stern reason why until the last moment he is not nothing determined maintaining the interest of the spectators until the end.

Regatas of fleet

   The windward beacon is formed by two buoys that the boats must leave by port. In this way one is able to maintain to the separated boats. Once turned this beacon, the equipment will be able to hoist his spi.