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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.

E6

PROTESTS AND REQUESTS FOR REDRESS

E6.1: Protest Validity

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 sail in the heat where the incident occurred, or

Add new rule 60.4(a)(4):

  • (a) A protest is invalid
    (4) if it is from a boat or competitor and alleges a breach of rule E2 or E3.7.

E6.2: Protest for a Rule Broken by a Competitor

When a committee learns that a competitor may have broken a rule, it may protest the boat controlled by that competitor.

E6.3: Informing the Protestee

Rule 60.2(a)(1) is changed to:

  • (1) If the protestor is a boat, she shall hail ‘(Her own sail number) protest (the sail number of the other boat)’.

E6.4: Informing the Race Committee

The boat protesting or requesting redress about an incident while racing shall inform the race committee as soon as reasonably possible after finishing or retiring.

E6.5: Time Limits

A protest, request for redress or request for reopening shall be delivered to the race committee no later than ten minutes after the last boat in the heat finishes or after the relevant incident, whichever is later.

E6.6: Redress Decisions

Rules 61.4(b)(2) and 61.4(b)(3) are changed to:

  • (2) injury, physical damage or becoming disabled because of the action of a boat that was breaking a rule of Part 2 and took an appropriate penalty or was penalized,
  • (3) injury, physical damage or becoming disabled because of the action of a vessel not racing that was required to keep clear or is determined to be at fault under the IRPCAS or a government right-of-way rule.

Add new rule 61.4(b)(6):

  • (6) external radio interference acknowledged by the race committee.

Add to rule 61.4(c):

If a boat is given redress because she was damaged, her redress shall include reasonable time, but not more than 30 minutes, to make repairs before her next heat.

E6.7: Rights of Parties

In rule 63.1(a)(4) ‘the representatives of boats shall have been on board’ is changed to ‘the representative of each boat shall be the competitor designated to control her’.

E6.8: Hearing Procedure

Add new rule 63.4(f):

  • (f) When the protest concerns an alleged breach of a rule of Part 2, 3 or 4, any witness shall have been in the control area at the time of the incident. A witness who is a competitor, and who was not acting as an observer, must also have been scheduled to race in the relevant heat.

Definitions in Context

Committee

The protest committee, the race committee or the technical committee.

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.

Keep Clear

A boat keeps clear of a right-of-way boat

  • (a) if the right-of-way boat can sail her course with no need to take avoiding action and,
  • (b) when the boats are overlapped, if the right-of-way boat can also change course in both directions without immediately making contact.
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.

Rule E5

- (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 an...

Rule E7

When a protest committee decides that a boat that is a party to a protest hearing has broken a rule other than a rule of Part 2, 3 or 4, it shall either - (a) d...

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