Rule 28 - Sailing the Course RC Protests

Reminds me of where I used to sail. We (a dinghy club) shared the water with the local yacht racing. We also shared a VHF channel. Trying to communicate with our support boats at times became impossible, while the yachts did their tally in and count down over the VHF. Not infrequently one of them would leave their mic on in the cockpit during their race and you could hear them swearing at each other as they blocked our communication with our motor boats. Kind of entertaining, but also bl**dy annoying.

 

Wish I could like!

No, was a brief response in response to JC’s post.  We race dinghies in a harbour.  In the race office we check boats in, record who we consider has finished and who we consider to have retired ... if there are any left overs we account for them.  We run laid back family week long regattas and all attempts to have a signing on and signing off system have previously failed.  

We try to mark those that we consider to have retired as RTD and those who have infringed with the appropriate monicker, occasionally it does not work, in which case we have set up a system that allows competitors to advise the RC of any perceived errors in the results, without the need to call a PC.  

It seems to work for us.

If it's a keelboat race and, as usual, the equipment safety rules require the boats to be self righting and adequately equipped, in accordance with, among other things rule 1.2, and bearing in mind rule 4, why should the club 'need some means of knowing all are safe home'?