Rule A5.1: Scores Determined by the Race Committee

A5.1

Scores Determined by the Race Committee

When a race committee determines that a boat:

(a) did not sail the course,
(b) did not comply with rule 30.2, 30.3, 30.4 or 78.2, or
(c) retired or took a penalty under rule 44.3(a), it shall score the boat accordingly without a hearing. Only the protest committee may take other scoring actions that worsen a boat’s score.

Committee

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

Protest

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

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.