Editing Capsizing (section)

== Competition ==
[[Image:Aus2.jpg|right|thumb|250px|A team at the 2005 ISAF Team Racing World Championship narrowly avoids capsizing.]]
In competitive [[yacht racing]], a capsized boat has certain special rights as it cannot maneuver. A boat is deemed capsized when the mast is touching the water; when it is fully inverted, it is said to have [[Turtling (sailing)|turned turtle]] or turtled.<ref name="Rousmaniere">{{cite web|url=http://offshore.ussailing.org/AssetFactory.aspx?vid=19214 |title=Tests of Sailor Retrieval, Capsize Recovery and Entrapment |first1=John |last1=Rousmaniere |author-link1=John Rousmaniere |publisher=[[US Sailing]] |access-date=19 November 2013 |format=PDF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131203024047/http://offshore.ussailing.org/AssetFactory.aspx?vid=19214 |archive-date=3 December 2013}}</ref> Good racers can often recover from a capsize with minimal loss of time.

The capsize can result from extreme [[broach (sailing)|broaching]], especially if the [[keel]] has insufficient leverage to tilt the vessel upright.

Some [[Lifeboat (rescue)|rescue lifeboats]], for example the [[RNLI]]'s [[Severn-class lifeboat|Severn-class]] are designed to be self-righting if capsized, but most other motorboats are not.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}