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RYA 2006/3 event, but the time limit for lodging a protest should not
A race committee intending to protest a boat over an normally be extended beyond then.
incident it observes in the racing area is required to
notify the protestee after the race. Provided it does so, it Rule 62.1, Redress
may also do so during the race as an additional CASE 31
courtesy. When the correct visual recall signal for individual

RYA 2008/2 recall is made but the required sound signal is not, and
A protest that a boat has not complied with rule 28.1 when a recalled boat in a position to hear a sound
does not have to be notified before the protested boat signal does not see the visual signal and does not
has finished. return, she is entitled to redress. However, if she
realizes she is on the course side of the line she must
Rule 61.2, Protest Requirements: Protest return and start correctly.
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A boat cannot protest the race committee. However, she
CASE 22 may request redress or, if she is a party to a hearing,
It is not relevant to the validity of a protest that a rule request that it be reopened. A boat that was not a party
the protestor believes was broken is not one of the rules to a hearing does not have the right to appeal. When
that the protest committee later determines to have been she believes that her score has been made significantly
broken. worse by an improper action or omission of the race
committee, her only remedy is to request redress. She
CASE 80 may then appeal the decision of the redress hearing.
A hearing of a protest or a request for redress must be
limited to the alleged incident, action or omission. CASE 140
Although a boat may be scored DNF if she does not How the rules apply when a boat is compelled to cross
finish according to that term’s definition, she may not the starting line by another boat that was breaking a
be scored DNF for failing to sail the course correctly. rule of Part 2.

RYA 1988/3 RYA 1990/7
Neither protestor nor protestee is required to produce a Rule 61.2 does not permit a protest committee to change
diagram of the incident. a request for redress into a protest against a boat. A
RYA 1990/7 protest by a boat must always comply with rule 61.1(a).
Rule 61.2 does not permit a protest committee to change
a request for redress into a protest against a boat. A RYA 1994/9
protest by a boat must always comply with rule 61.1(a). Redress is not available for a boat that is in part the
author of her own misfortune.
Rule 61.3, Protest Requirements: Protest RYA 2002/6
Time Limit
When there is a prize for a certain category of boat
RYA 1989/7 within the overall results of a race, competition for the
When a race committee believes that a boat has broken prize ranks as a race for the purposes of rule 62.1.
a sailing instruction, it cannot disqualify her without a When the conditions relating to the awarding of a
hearing or deem her to have retired. The race or protest trophy are ambiguous, the RYA is normally no better
committee must first lodge a protest against her, within placed than the protest committee to interpret them.
the time limit for doing so, and a hearing must then be
called. RYA 2002/9
When redress is requested, a protest committee is not
RYA 1989/9 entitled to award redress to a boat that is not a party to
A request that seeks the correction of an alleged error that hearing based on facts outside the scope of the
of the race committee ranks as a request for redress request. A fresh hearing is required. When redress is
even if it does not use those words. If it is lodged being considered for a boat as a result of physical
promptly after the facts are known, this is sufficient damage, a separate protest hearing is not essential for
good reason for a protest committee to extend the there to be a conclusion that another boat did or did not
normal time limit. break a rule of Part 2, but in practice it is desirable,
even if the protestee has taken a penalty and so cannot
RYA 2001/2
When a boat believes that she may have broken a rule be penalized.
and retires in compliance with the Basic Principle, she
may revoke her retirement within protest or declaration RYA 2003/6
time if she later realises that she did not in fact break a When a boat is on the course side at her starting signal
rule. However, if she is not acting in good faith, she because another boat broke a rule, she is still required
breaks rule 2, Fair Sailing. to return and start. Normally, she is not entitled to
redress for the time lost in so doing.
RYA 2005/7
The hearing of requests for redress and rule 69 actions
may unavoidably have to take place after the end of an
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