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  Martin Fraser Yesterday 20:47
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• Pondering Rule 3 - Are Race Officers and Organizing Authorities Over-Reaching?
  Finally, 'duty of care' is a well established and understood facet of English law, traceable back to the 15th century, and now emboided in the laws of many countries and jurisdictions (European and otherwise) - even under Sharia Law - eg UAE, whereby: 'duty of care refers to the legal obligation imposed on individuals to act in a manner that avoids foreseeable harm to others' (it is much the same in Bahrain and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where I have sailed also).
  
  
  John Quirk Today 04:00
• Time limit in Handicap Racing
  My first answer is:

  

  
  However, most club racing likely uses some form of elapsed-time correction. One fair method is to apply time corrections to all boats after the first boat has finished. 
  
  Here is my attempt to explain it. In the case of the 30 minutes limit:

  • add 30 minutes to the elapsed time of the first boat to finish and convert its corrected time by multiplying by its TCF (Time Correction Factor)
  • for all boats divide the corrected time of the winner, which includes the 30 minute time limit, by by the individual boat's TCF.   This will give you the time limits for those boats.   

  
  You might find that boats with a very low (fast) ratings could be already beyond the time limit set by the winning boat.   
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  Peter van Muyden Today 02:11
• Three CV's on a long starting line
  A regular feature of the CIE Optimist Event (International Summer Cup) in France. 400+ boats for a coastal race (yes, you heard correctly!)  SIs in French here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DGqkqE3sk9DocwkCFUjcUmOc4f_A4kFR 
  Ian Venner Yesterday 19:52
• Time Limit Expired (TLE)
  in my opinion, is not a suitable answer in such circumstance. However, TLE encourages boats to start and make every effort to complete, which is correct for small single fleets.
   https://www.sailing.org/tools/documents/2021AppendixLG28112020-[26802].pdf golf hit
  Blackwell Gerald Yesterday 08:41
• Rule 18,2 (e) Reasonable Doubt
  Thanks again Tim and all, I have it all well in perspective now - and application subtleties etc as Michael points out...
  John Quirk Sun 01:48

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