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Part appendices

Section E — Radio Sailing Racing Rules

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

Note: Development Rules for Umpired Radio Sailing is available on the World Sailing website.

E5

RACING WITH OBSERVERS AND UMPIRES

E5.1: Observers

  • (a) The race committee may appoint observers, who may be competitors.
  • (b) Observers shall hail the sail numbers of boats that make contact with a mark or another boat.
  • (c) At the end of a heat, observers shall report to the race committee all unresolved incidents, and any failure to sail the course.

E5.2: Rules for Observers and Umpires

Observers and umpires shall be located in the control area. They shall not use any aid or device that gives them a visual advantage over competitors.

Definitions in Context

Mark

An object the sailing instructions require a boat to leave on a specified side, a race committee vessel surrounded by navigable water from which the starting or finishing line extends, and an object intentionally attached to the object or vessel. However, an anchor line is not part of the mark.

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.

Rule E4

Rules 40 , 44.3 , 45 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 52 , 54 , 55 and 56 are deleted. Rule 41 is changed to: A boat or the competitor controlling her shall not receive help fr...

Rule E6

Rule 60.4(a)(2) is changed to: - (a) A protest is invalid (2) if it is from a boat that alleges a breach of a rule of Part 2, 3 or 4, but was not scheduled to s...

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