• When is an entry an entry?
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  Paul Kimmens Mon 14:17
• Fix for RRS 60.4(a)(2) – Validity
  16 Comments
  Paul Zupan Sun 20:12
• Measurement Basis of Hull Length or Hull Lengths and Associated Rules
  5 Comments
  John Quirk Sat 17:23
• 1.1 Helping Those in Danger and Redress Race Time Adjustment
  11 Comments
  John Quirk Fri 18:28
• Appointment of an Investigator
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  John Quirk 26-Jan-04 17:44

• Mark-Room and Room to Pass an Obstruction who wins.
  Angelo,
  
  

  I myself found it difficult to phrase it in a way that would not be a conclusion. That is why I used “space” rather than “room”.
  
  

  Mark Townsend previously wrote that “Sleigh Ride could have ducked the mark and given Polar Express room at the obstruction.” With my addition (in which I did not mention the mark), I wanted to exclude the possibility of passing below the mark.
  
  

  Your fact 5 does not yet rule this out, since it referred to the distance between the mark and the obstruction.
  
  Do you have a suggestion to exclude the possibility to duck the mark?
  
  
  Jonah Dekeyzer Today 14:56
• Fix for RRS 60.4(a)(2) – Validity
  Gordon re: "Perhaps RRS.org could designate a suitably qualified person (an international race official, for instance) to present proposals on the Portal. By appending a list of contributors who support the proposal this would effectively become a petition. There seems to be nothing to prevent this use of the Proposal Portal."
  
  FWIW ... I've worked with a few different IJ's and IRO's to submit stuff that is inspired by RRoS threads.
  
  I've also taken items to the USS-RC and tried to get buy-in on ideas for additions/changes to the RRS, Cases and US Appeals.
  
  I know that some members of both the USS-RC and the USS-AppealsComm are frequent readers and occasional contributors to the forum.  I've been told privately that they derive a benefit from seeing how judges, RO's and racers perceive the rules and use that to help them find areas for improvement. 
  
  We can point to a few successes in that regard. 
  
  

  • As I recall, the withdraw of Case 133 was in part due to the discussion here. 
  • Case 132 came out first as a US Appeal .. in part because of this thread started by Boris (unfortunately the drawings are no longer avail in old threads). 
  • Case 148 was a direct result of a thread on RRoS. Forum member and IRO Peter Van Muyden and I worked on a submission to the WS Q&A, which then went to the WS-RC as the Q&A Service needed a rule change or case before they could answer.
  • Ric Crabbe (forum member) flagged this validly issue up the chain in late 2023. 
  • ... there are few other examples ..

  
  So ... yea ... that's been happening behind the scenes.  It's usually me finding a "champion" behind the scenes ... an IRO/IJ or working through my MNA in the US RulesComm or US-AppealsComm.
  Angelo Guarino Today 14:39
• When is an entry an entry?
  A boat that has not complied with all the requirements of the organising authority is not entered.
  
  It might be useful to have a list of boats who have met some to the requirements but not all (with the list of requirements that have not been met. However, I would argue that this is an 'Incomplete Entry' or 'Not Yet Entered. However, by demonstrating that they intend to participate in the event, under RRS 4(a) they have agreed to accept the rules. This may be of importance if the boat goes racing without completing the entry requirements.
  
  A  boat does not have to enter the event to be subject to the rules. RRS4 (a) specifically states 'By participating or intending to participate in an events', not 'entered'
  We have had incidents here in which boats entered for the club racing series do not enter the club regatta, but come to the starting area, start, sail the course and finish. In other words, they are participating in the event. Therefore, the rules of Part 2 apply between this non-entered boat and other boats participating in the event.
  Gordon Davies Yesterday 15:43
• Measurement Basis of Hull Length or Hull Lengths and Associated Rules
  I'm not sure that the recent revisions involving hull have been an improvement. We have the situation where bowsprit doesn't count for over the line or hull length, but does count for overlap. And ERS isn't that helpful when it comes to hull length. If you take a modern 18 or other similar craft there's a nominally vertical stem, but a tube projecting from that, with bracing structure both beneath and to each side. Throroughly part of the hull. OK, count it as bow sprit. Maybe. But in other classes you have exactly the same, but a solid construction. Look at these two. Where, in ERS terms is the bow on each, and how on earth do you tell who is over if you are sighting a busy startline? 

  

  Jim Champ Sun 13:25
• 1.1 Helping Those in Danger and Redress Race Time Adjustment
  Very practical method Alan - and 'refreshing' (for the routine ones I have PC experience in, we just did the corection calcs within ourselves - this case a major one) - for ourselves, easy enough to submit to the PC, when national level racing, as we always log all such baseline performance & tracking data from the onset of every race (and event YB Tracker always used etc).
  
  
  John Quirk Sun 00:15

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