• Class breaks in handicap racing
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  Jonah Zimmerman Today 06:18
• Protest Standard of Proof and Evidence Bars
  8 Comments
  John Quirk Mon 05:40
• Question of terminology when all boats do not race together
  13 Comments
  Gordon Davies 25-Dec-10 14:03
• A keen volunteer with a conflict of interest
  55 Comments
  Benjamin Harding 25-Dec-09 11:09
• Should "Basic Principles" be added to RRS 4 & 5?
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  Angelo Guarino 25-Dec-08 13:40

• Class breaks in handicap racing
  RRS 63.5(d) leaves any doubt about the interpretation of class rules to the relevant class, and In the US, there is a US Sailing prescription to that rule that specifically says that the authority responsible for interpreting  the rules of a handicap rating system is the authority that issued that rating. There is no limitation in PHRF that I'm aware of that prevents an OA from grouping boats in any particular way, and according to that US prescription, it wouldn't be within a PC's authority to impose one, as (in my view) that would be an interpretation of the PHRF rules.
  
  As to the propriety of leaving fleet splits undescribed until shortly before the racing starts, as long as that schedule for publishing fleet splits is described in the NOR, I don't see any conclusion possible that there has been any impropriety in proceeding as described. As we all know, it isn't at all uncommon for RCs to balance fleet numbers after they know how many boats will compete.
  
  I'm with Greg; sh*t happens, and unfortunate fleet splits are a risk of any handicap system.
  John Mooney Today 20:43
• A keen volunteer with a conflict of interest
  I must have been referring to the right subparagraph:  Jim understood.
  
  Fixed.
  John Allan Tue 13:39
• Protest Standard of Proof and Evidence Bars
  Thanks John...even then with "...bearing in mind the seriousness of the allegation." (seriousness being the operative word), there is an educated [jurisdictional] assesssment of sorts to be made.
  John Quirk Tue 03:37
• Why is the "red flag" needed?
  Rob .. I like it. It captures the "obvious contact" condition and ties it up nicely. 
  Angelo Guarino Sun 20:09
• Question of terminology when all boats do not race together
  Thank you for your reply born of direct experience. Long ago I ran a national championship with 6 races (one scheduled per day – those were the days) and a four race minimum. We got the required four in, but only just, and on the final day; nail-biting stuff in a light-wind week at a normally-windy venue. The concept of event sponsors, let alone personal ones, was pretty alien, limited to whether we could get the club's brewery to subsidise the bar. 
  
  I still say that, to be a series, you need at least two data points, but if the RRS (which does not define a series) allows the minimum number of races to be set to one, that part of the sentence in RRS A1 – 'and the number required to be scored to constitute a series' can be rendered ineffective. The RRS rule-drafters cannot have had this in mind when they made this condition compulsory. Perhaps RRS A1 should be amended to make this requirement optional. Nevertheless, deciding an event, let alone a championship, on the basis of one race would be farcical.
  Nicolas Livingstone Sat 11:36

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