I had this exact issue in Arbitration.  I suggest you look at it the way I explained it to the competitors.  Look at it as if there is no mark there when making your judgement.  The interaction between the boats on different legs is independent of whether a mark is near them or not.

What Mike said I think.  

The PC Chair has received information from a source.  It (the PC) shall decide whether or not to call a hearing.  

I got some pics to share of the Aeleron Express 28's solution.   Thanks to Bill Carruth and Chris Kramer for sharing.

Should work with any Hoyt Jib Boom. 

In some classes it makes perfect sense. Optimists in Ireland and UK use a season- long set of SIs (Major Event SIs) which have been beaten, prodded, tested, corrected and hammered into a robust form by a number of IROs/NROs/IJs/NJs used to cover regional, national and other fleet events at club level. Occasionally, items arise at a specific venue or point in the season where amending these within event-specific Supplementary SIs is helpful, rather than posting "big" amendments to the MESIs. 

Same applies to NOR, particularly where these may be drafted and issued months in advance (even the prior year) for e.g.  National Champs, major events such as Cowes/Cork/DL. 

Fully agree this needs to be managed carefully and the earlier the actual Race officials can help with review the better, and stay away from the "contract" elements for sure!!

Ultimately - I always prefer drafting/reviewing  both together, even if the SIs then sit in a drawer until the event. 

Interestingly, I have just researched MLS Rules - The mid-90's American modified 'soccer' rules.  It didn't really work.

However, MLS did have a countdown timer as Ang describes as well as some other variations to the traditional game.  MLS Penalties were pretty funky.

The MLS rules lasted 4 years.

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In this research, I find that the football rule makers, IFAB, remains institutionally conservative and deliberately resistant to game changes.
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I'm also finding that what I see as poor sportsmanship is, in some places, seen as the art of being street-smart and 'doing whatever it takes to win for your team'.  Perhaps all those dives and feigned injuries I saw Columbia doing the other night were heroic... to Columbians.  Tactics celebrated as "viveza" or "gamesmanship".

If half the footballing world are happy with that, things will never change.

On-field tactics such as shirt-pulling, heckling the ref, appealing when knowingly last touched, diving and feigning injury will always be worth-a-go.  If you can't beat them, join them.  Off the field, the unseen underworld will continue to prop up the sport, rightly or wrongly.

I don't think there is a solution coming any time soon.