Forum: The Racing Rules of Sailing
World Sailing - Important Update
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Paul ZupanNationality: United States
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- International Judge
- National Judge
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World Sailing would like to draw your attention to recent developments with the Racing Rules of Sailing, including important decisions made at the 2017 Annual Conference.
This information is being circulated to all MNAs, World Sailing Classes and World Sailing Race Officials.
MNAs are requested to ensure it is sent to all relevant contacts with their countries, including race officials without an international qualification.
Urgent Rule Changes
Having reviewed the implementation of the new rules concerning support persons in the 2017 – 2020 Racing Rules of Sailing, World Sailing has made a number of urgent rule changes following feedback from MNAs and race officials.
These urgent rule changes affect the following rules: Definition , rules and . There is also a new rule .
These rule changes will come into effect on 1 January 2018.
In Definitions, change (e) to:
(e) a support person subject to a hearing under rule (d) or ; any boat that person supports; a person appointed to present an allegation under rule (d).
Change rule to:
63.1 Requirement for a Hearing
A boat or competitor shall not be penalized without a protest hearing, except as provided in rules , , , (d), (b), , , and . A decision on redress shall not be made without a hearing. The protest committee shall hear all protests and requests for redress that have been delivered to the race office unless it allows a protest or request to be withdrawn.
Add new rule :
63.9 Hearings under Rule (d) – Support Persons
If the protest committee decides to call a hearing under rule (d), it shall promptly follow the procedures in rules , , and , except that the information given to the parties shall be details of the alleged breach and a person may be appointed by the protest committee to present the allegation.
Change rule to:
64.4 Decisions Concerning Support Persons
- When the protest committee decides that a support person who is a party to a hearing under rule (d) or has broken a rule, it may
- issue a warning,
- exclude the person from the event or venue or remove any privileges or benefits, or
- take other action within its jurisdiction as provided by the rules.
- The protest committee may also penalize a boat that is a party to a hearing under rule (d) or for the breach of a rule by a support person by changing the boat’s score in a single race, up to and including DSQ, when the protest committee decides that
- the boat may have gained a competitive advantage as the result of the breach by the support person, or
- the support person committed a further breach after the protest committee warned the boat in writing, following a previous hearing, that a penalty may be imposed.
You can find details of these changes and corrections at http://www.sailing.org/documents/racingrules/index.php
World Sailing Case 78
Following a review involving athletes, coaches, race officials and other stakeholders, World Sailing has amended Case 78 This Case interprets rule (Fair Sailing).
Previously, a boat was allowed to use tactics that interfered with and hindered another boat’s progress in a race if there was a reasonable chance that these tactics benefitted either:
1. Her final ranking in the event; or
2. Her chances of gaining selection for another event or for her national team.
Under the newly amended Case, it is no longer possible to justify these actions on the basis that they benefit a boat’s chances of gaining selection for another event or for her national team. Such tactics can only be justified if there is a reasonable chance they will benefit the boat’s final ranking in the event. Otherwise they will break rule .
The updated Case will be available shortly via a supplement to the World Sailing Case Book. This will be sent to all MNAs and World Sailing Race Officials.
Please note the above information is not an official interpretation of the Racing Rules of Sailing by World Sailing and is for information only. The final published Case will be the only authoritative interpretation.
New World Sailing Case: Requesting Redress under Rule (b)
If a boat requests redress due to injury or physical damage caused by a boat breaking a rule of Part 2, there has been a difference of opinion of whether the boat seeking redress must first protest the other boat.
A new World Sailing Case will be published shortly which will confirm that she does not need to protest the boat that caused the damage or injury. However, her request for redress will not succeed unless evidence is provided during the redress hearing that leads the protest committee to conclude that the other boat broke a rule of Part 2.
This new Case will be available shortly via a supplement to the World Sailing Case Book. This will be sent to all MNAs and World Sailing Race Officials
Please note the above information is not an official interpretation of the Racing Rules of Sailing by World Sailing and is for information only. The final published Case will be the only authoritative interpretation.
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