E5
| PART 5 – PROTESTS, REDRESS, HEARINGS, MISCONDUCT AND APPEALS
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E5.1
| Right to Protest and Request Redress
Add to rule 60.1(a): ‘A protest alleging a breach of a rule of Part 2, 3 or 4 shall
be made only by a competitor within the control or launching area and by a
boat scheduled to race in the heat in which the incident occurred.’ After the
words ‘report by a competitor from another boat’ in rules 60.2(a) and 60.3(a)
add ‘except when acting as an observer’.
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E5.2
| Informing the Protestee
In rule 61.1(a) delete all after the first sentence and replace with ‘When her
protest concerns an incident in the racing area that she is involved in or sees,
she shall twice hail ‘(Her own sail number) “protest” (the sail number of the
other boat).’
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E5.3
| Protest Time Limit
In rule 61.3 delete ‘two hours’ and replace with ‘15 minutes’. Add ‘A protestor
intending to submit a protest shall inform the race committee within five
minutes of the end of the relevant heat.’
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E5.4
| Accepting Responsibility
A boat that acknowledges breaking a rule of Part 2, 3 or 4 before the protest is
found to be valid may retire from the relevant heat without further penalty.
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E5.5
| Redress
- Add to rule 62.1:
- radio interference, or
- an entanglement or grounding because of the action of a boat that
was breaking a rule of Part 2 or of a vessel not racing that was
required to keep clear.
- The first sentence of rule 62.2 is changed to ‘The request shall be made
in writing within the time limit of rule E5.3.’
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