When the race committee decides that the team’s score was made significantly worse, that the breakdown was through no fault of the crew, and that in the same circumstances a reasonably competent crew would not have been able to avoid the breakdown, it shall make as equitable a decision as possible. This may be to abandon and resail the race or, when the boat’s finishing place was predictable, award her points for that place. Any doubt about a boat’s position when she broke down shall be resolved against her.
Part appendices
Section D — Team Racing Rules
Team races shall be sailed under The Racing Rules of Sailing as changed by this appendix.
D5.4
Rule D5.3
The race committee shall decide requests for a score change in accordance with rules D5.4 and D5.5 . It may take evidence in any way it considers appropriate an...
Rule D5.5
A breakdown caused by defective supplied equipment or a breach of a rule by an opponent shall not normally be determined to be the fault of the crew, but one ca...