• Protest Standard of Proof and Evidence Bars
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  John Quirk Today 05:40
• Question of terminology when all boats do not race together
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  Gordon Davies Wed 14:03
• A keen volunteer with a conflict of interest
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  Benjamin Harding Tue 11:09
• Should "Basic Principles" be added to RRS 4 & 5?
  7 Comments
  Angelo Guarino 25-Dec-08 13:40
• Judges walking the Dock
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  Robert Stewart 25-Dec-08 04:13

• A keen volunteer with a conflict of interest
  Jim re: "Supposing a competitor is significantly disadvantaged by someone doing an RC function they have not been authorised to do?"
  
  Trying to think of a scenario there. ... hmmm
  
  Maybe a parent is in their own powerboat watching the race.  They see an a$!h&$? in a go-fast boat blazing toward the race area.  The parent takes it upon themselves to speed out to fend-off the go-fast-boat and in doing so disadvantages a competitor. 
  
  Maybe a difference there if in the same instance, the signal boat radios the parent and asks them to do it?
  
  Is that what you are thinking?
  Angelo Guarino Today 13:44
• Protest Standard of Proof and Evidence Bars
  Well said John.
  Greg Dargavel Today 12:34
• Why is the "red flag" needed?
  Rob .. I like it. It captures the "obvious contact" condition and ties it up nicely. 
  Angelo Guarino Yesterday 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
• Judges walking the Dock
  Tim the "sort it out on the water" is emblematic of the 2-boat centric mindset which is misplaced in fleet racing.  It's a foundation of that old article I wrote. 
  
  When a boat breaks a rule for which they are not exonerated (and then do not take a penalty) they gain an incalculable advantage against all other boats in the fleet.  Some are close, some might be on the other side of the course, and it's impossible for anyone to calculate what those advantages are.  
  
  The idea that 2 boats can "work it out on the water" reduces the effect of a boat's rule-breach to only the other boat that is referred-to in that rule ... as if this was a one-on-one match race and no other boats existed.  
  
  THAT is what I try to get-through first when this topic comes up with individual racers.  When we compete in fleet racing, we are all OTW judges for the rest of the fleet.
  Angelo Guarino Fri 13:59

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