• 2025 Jury Policies and Discretionary Penalties
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  John Allan Wed 11:00
• Most significant cases that changed in the 2025 case book?
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  Richard Reitmeyer Tue 17:51
• RRS 2025 Changes to Part 5 Protests etc – Intention to Protest Not Sail the Course and Case 112
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  John Allan Tue 14:30
• RRS 2025 Changes to Part 5 Protests etc - No Red Flag when out of hailing distance
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• Most significant cases that changed in the 2025 case book?
  Cases deleted or withdrawn since last quad.  As far as I can tell, only Case 45 is a new deletion and there are no new "out for revisions" from the 2017 quad..
  
  So that it is easy to see what was deleted/out-for-revision, I provide a link to the last RRoS.org version we have online.  You will notice that many of the links to the withdrawn cases are to the 2013 quad.  You have to wonder why they simply do not accept that they won't revise them and change change them to "deleted" .. after some are 10+ yrs in limbo. 
  
  In the new quad .. they removed all the explanations of why something is out for revision.
  
  

  1. Case 45 - deleted in 2025 quad
  2. Case 55 (withdrawn for revision - was in previous quad too) 
  3. Case 60 (withdrawn for revision - was in previous quad too)
  4. Case 70 (withdrawn for revision - was in previous quad too)
  5. Case 71 (withdrawn for revision - was in previous quad too)
  6. Case 76 (withdrawn for revision - was in previous quad too)
  7. Case 133 (withdrawn for revision - was in previous quad too)
  8. Case 144 (withdrawn for revision - was in previous quad too)
  Angelo Guarino Yesterday 14:45
• Giving mark room
  My previous (deleted) reply was wrong. The Case book on this site is yet to be updated I believe.
  
  
  Niko Kotsatos Yesterday 13:53
• RRS 2025 Changes to Part 5 Protests etc - No Red Flag when out of hailing distance
  Calum, Unless the NOR/SI validly change  RRS 63.2(a),  which they may (but are very unwise to) do in accordance with  RS 86.1, the protest committee shall hear every protest or request that is delivered, whether it is, or is likely to be invalid or not.
  
  So a protest committee should 'sit around' until the protest time limit expires.
  
  If the OA thinks that a requirement to notify the race committee at the finish of an intention to protest reduces the risk that a non-notified protest will significantly disturb the event results, they can go ahead with announcements and presentations before the protest time limit, and take the risk that they will have to unwind it all later if there is a successful protest, but that's their decision.
  John Allan Wed 22:23
• 2025 Jury Policies and Discretionary Penalties
  Thanks for finding this.
  
  With so many pages i wonder about the title of Discretionary!
  Michael Butterfield Wed 13:59
• RRS 2025 Changes to Part 5 Protests etc – Intention to Protest Not Sail the Course and Case 112
  John C,  The background to Case 112 was that some time around 2008 there was a Q&A, initiated from, I think, the USA, where the answer was that the requirement was to inform the protestee at the first reasonable opportunity after making the rule 28 error, that is, missing the mark etc.
  
  It was then discovered that the RYA had a long standing Appeal in their Appeal Book that more correctly identified the time of breaking the rule as when the boat finished, so that time for informing the protestee needed to run from not before than that time.
  
  Case 112 was then issued to unwind the Q&A and clarify that the RYA interpretation was correct.
  
  The wording inserted into the RRS in 2013 appeared to make Case 112 redundant, until the 2025 RRS deleted the qualification ‘after the [protestee] finishes’. 
  
  Suddenly Case 112 became important again, because, as Rob O has said, it explains the rationale and makes the 'after finishing' qualification clear.
  John Allan Tue 22:28

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