The study pack for the 2025-28 Racing Rules of Sailing is now available on the World Sailing website. These contain every single change to the RRS and provide access to the original submissions which led to the rule change.

The files in the study pack are designed to help you learn and understand the changes that have been made in the 2025-28 Racing Rules of Sailing. Looking at the submission that led to a rule change will often help you understand why that rule change was made.

In the study version of the RRS, all wording that is new in 2025 is shown in red font, and wording that was deleted from the 2021-2024 rulebook is shown struck through in black font. If a rule was changed, there will be a comment in the right margin showing the submission number that led to the change and the year in which the submission was made. For example, Submission number ‘003-22’ was the third submission made in 2022.

The study pack for the 2025-28 RRS is here.
For more on the RRS, click here.

By Melanie Peasey