Racing Rules

D2

INTENTION TO PROTEST; ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF BREACHES OF RULES

D2.1

General

1. A boat intending to protest shall hail the other boat immediately and promptly display a red flag.
   
   
2. A boat that, while racing, may have broken a rule of Part 2, except rule 14 when the boat has caused damage, or rule D1 may take a penalty as provided by rules 44.1 and 44.2, except that only one turn is required. When an incident occurs at the finishing line or when an umpire’s penalty is signalled at or beyond the finishing line, a boat shall not be recorded as having finished until she has completed her penalty and sailed completely to the course side of the line before finishing.
   
   
3. When after displaying a red flag a boat is satisfied that the other boat has taken a penalty in compliance with rule D2.1(b) she shall remove her red flag.
   
   
4. A boat that has displayed a red flag and then decides reasonably promptly that she, and not the other boat, was at fault shall immediately remove her flag, take a penalty in compliance with rule D2.1(b), and hail the other boat accordingly.
   
   
5. The sailing instructions may state that rule D2.2(g) applies to all protests.

D2.2

Umpired Races

1. When a boat protests under a rule of Part 2, except rule 14, or under rule D1, 31.1, 42 or 44, she is not entitled to a hearing. Instead, when the protested boat fails either to acknowledge breaking a rule or to take a penalty in compliance with rule D2.1(b), the protesting boat may display a yellow flag and request a decision by hailing ‘Umpire’.
   
   
2. An umpire shall signal a decision as follows:
   1. A green flag or a green and white flag means ‘No penalty imposed; incident closed’.