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CASE 128 Rule A10, Guidance on Redress
If a boat makes an error under rule 28.2 or breaks rule
31 at the finishing line and finishes without correcting CASE 116
her error or taking a penalty, she must be scored points A discussion of redress in a situation in which a boat is
for the place in which she finished. She can only be damaged early in a series, is entitled to redress under
penalized for breaking rule 28.2 or rule 31 if she is rule 62.1(b), and is prevented by the damage from
protested and the protest committee decides that she sailing the remaining races. In such a situation it is not
broke the rule. fair to the other boats in the series to award her
average points for half or more of the races that
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At the end of an event, if a boat has broken rule 78.2 by
not producing a required certificate or arranging for its APPENDIX D -
existence to be verified, the race committee is required,
without a hearing, to score her ‘DSQ’ for all races of TEAM RACING RULES
the event.
RYA 2005/2
In team racing, a request for redress following a
RYA 1985/4 breakdown of a supplied boat shall be decided by the
A race committee is not entitled to score a boat DNF race committee.
because it believes she did not correctly sail the course; Before granting redress the race committee shall
instead it must protest her under rule 28. consider all the requirements for redress in rule D5. A
RYA 1989/7 boat is required to display a red flag when she should
When a race committee believes that a boat has broken be aware of the facts, while racing, but not when the
a sailing instruction, it cannot disqualify her without a facts cannot be learned until after the race. The
hearing or deem her to have retired. The race or protest decision of the race committee may be contested via a
committee must first lodge a protest against her, within request for redress, which is a matter for a protest
the time limit for doing so, and a hearing must then be committee to consider.
called.
APPENDIX E -
RYA 1989/8
A race committee is not allowed to disqualify a boat RADIO SAILING RACING RULES
without a hearing, except under the U Flag and Black
Flag rules. A race committee is not allowed to score a Rule E6.3, Informing the Protestee
boat DNF for failing to sail the course if she complies
with the definitions Start and Finish. A protest is RYA 2002/7
needed. When rule 61.1(a) applies (whether as printed or as
altered by rule E6.3) compliance with the requirement
RYA 2006/8 to hail and, when required, to flag, fulfils the
Unless otherwise specified in the sailing instructions, a requirement to notify the protestee.
race committee has no power to disqualify a boat The protest hail procedure in radio-controlled boat
without a hearing, or score her DNF if she finishes, if it racing requires the number of the protesting boat to
believes she has not sailed the course. Instead it must precede the number of the protested boat, with the word
protest her within the protest time limit. ‘protest’ or a variant thereof between the numbers.

Rule A9, Race Scores in a Series Longer APPENDIX G – [as prescribed by
than a Regatta the RYA] IDENTIFICATION ON
RYA 2010/3 SAILS
When the starting area is not stated in the sailing RYA 2013/2
instructions, it will normally be the area where boats in
good time for their start will sail between their Rule 77 may be deleted by sailing instructions. When
preparatory signal and starting signal. rule 77 is deleted, neither Appendix G nor the RYA
When a boat never reaches the starting area, for prescriptions thereto apply. A boat might break a class
whatever reason, she is to be scored DNC. When she rule whether or not rule 77 applies. An organising
reaches the starting area after the starting signal but authority may reject or cancel an entry when they know
does not start, DNS will be the correct score if the race that a boat intends to race with a sail number other
committee and starting line are still in position, than its registered number or use a sail without any
otherwise she is to be scored DNC. number. A boat may be protested for a breach of class
rules, rule 77 or the WS Advertising Code.

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