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Section D — Team Racing Rules

Team races shall be sailed under The Racing Rules of Sailing as changed by this appendix.

D3

SCORING A RACE

D3.1:

  • (a) Each boat finishing a race and not retiring thereafter shall be scored points equal to her finishing place. All other boats shall be scored points equal to the number of boats entitled to race.
  • (b) When a boat is OCS and does not then either return to start or promptly retire, 10 points shall be added to her score.
  • (c) When a boat finishes and has not sailed the course, 6 points shall be added to her score, unless rule D3.1(b) applies.
  • (d) When a boat fails to take a penalty imposed by an umpire at or near the finishing line, she shall be scored as retired.
  • (e) When a boat is scored as retired after finishing, each boat with a worse finishing place shall be moved up one place.

D3.2:

When all boats on one team have finished, retired or failed to start, the other team’s boats racing at that time shall be scored the points they would have received had they finished.

D3.3:

When a protest committee decides that a boat that is a party to a protest hearing has broken a rule and was not exonerated:

  • (a) If the boat has broken
    (1) rule 1 or 2,
    (2) rule 14 when she has caused damage or injury, or
    (3) a rule when not racing,
    half or more race wins may be deducted from her team, or no penalty may be imposed. Race wins deducted shall not be awarded to any other team.
  • (b) If the boat has broken a rule other than the rules mentioned in D3.3(a) while racing and not taken or received a penalty for that breach, 6 points shall be added to her score.
  • (c) If the boat’s team has gained an advantage despite taking or receiving a penalty, the boat’s score may be increased.

D3.4:

The team with the lower total points wins the race. If the totals are equal, the team that does not have first place wins.

Definitions in Context

Finish

A boat finishes when, after her starting signal, any part of her hull crosses the finishing line from the course side. However, she has not finished if after crossing the finishing line she

  • (a) takes a penalty under rule 44.2,
  • (b) corrects an error in sailing the course made at the line, or
  • (c) continues to sail the course.

After finishing she need not cross the finishing line completely. The sailing instructions may change the direction in which boats are required to cross the finishing line to finish.

Party

A party to a hearing is

  • (a) for a protest hearing: a protestor, a protestee;
  • (b) for a redress hearing: a boat requesting redress or for which redress is requested; a boat for which a hearing is called to consider redress under rule 61.1; a committee acting under rule 61.1;
  • (c) for a redress hearing under rule 61.4(b)(1): the body alleged to have made an improper action or improper omission;
  • (d) a person against whom an allegation of a breach of rule 69.1(a) is made; a person presenting an allegation under rule 69.2(e)(1);
  • (e) a support person subject to a hearing under rule 62 or 69; any boat that person supports; a person appointed to present an allegation under rule 62.2.

However, the protest committee is never a party.

Protest

An allegation made under rule 60 by a boat or a committee that a boat has broken a rule.

Racing

A boat is racing from her preparatory signal until she finishes and clears the finishing line and marks or retires, or until the race committee signals a general recall, postponement or abandonment.

Rule
  • (a) The rules in this book, including the Definitions, Race Signals, Introduction, preambles and the rules of relevant appendices, but not the Basic Principles or titles;
  • (b) World Sailing Regulations that have been designated by World Sailing as having the status of a rule and are published on the World Sailing website;
  • (c) the prescriptions of the national authority, unless they are changed by the notice of race or sailing instructions in compliance with the national authority’s prescription, if any, to rule 88.2;
  • (d) the class rules (for a boat racing under a handicap or rating system, the rules of that system are ‘class rules’);
  • (e) the notice of race;
  • (f) the sailing instructions; and
  • (g) any other documents that govern the event.
Sail the Course

A boat sails the course when

  • (a) she starts;
  • (b) a string representing her track until she finishes, when drawn taut,
    • (1) passes each mark of the course for the race on the required side and in the correct order (including the starting marks),
    • (2) touches each mark designated in the sailing instructions to be a rounding mark, and
    • (3) passes between the marks of a gate from the direction of the course from the previous mark; and then
  • (c) she finishes.

A mark that does not begin, bound or end the leg the boat is sailing does not have a required side.

Start

A boat starts when, her hull having been entirely on the pre-start side of the starting line at or after her starting signal, and having complied with rule 30.1 if it applies, any part of her hull crosses the starting line from the pre-start side to the course side.

Rule D2

- (a) Rule D2 applies to umpired races. Races to be umpired shall be identified in the notice of race or sailing instructions or by the display of flag J no lat...

Rule D4

- (a) The format of an event consists of one or more stages. - (b) In a round-robin stage, teams are divided into one or more groups, and each group is schedule...

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