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Originally posted by boatshed I would sail and protest the RO for an excessive PY hit.   This would be just a legitimate as any other competitor protesting the RO on the basis the PY hit should have been more severe.

And in both cases the redress hearing would take about two minutes flat. The Race Committee has the authority to set whatever handicaps it likes.

I have in the past turned up at an event and been given a 50 point hit because "I [The RO] heard that [my class] won everything at the [redacted] last month and I didn't want it happening here." It was pathetic, childish and ill informed, but he was within his rights to do it, and our only alternative was to turn around and go back home. And in point of fact, although I did sail that day, I have never entered an event at that club since.



Edited by JimC - 07 Feb 13 at 10:27am

A PY hit in a pursuit race is totally demoralising. You start late and have no chance of catching up, so just sail round by yourself. At least in normal race you could still sork out where you would have come if the punitive PY hit had been imposed.

I know it isn't confirmed, but it would be inexcusable for Speed to have flouted the same rule again. Not that I understand why there is a rule about secondary reinforcement - it seems a bit technical to me - but you'd like to think the sailmakers know about, and abide by, such rules.

Originally posted by JimC Originally posted by boatshed I would sail and protest the RO for an excessive PY hit.   This would be just a legitimate as any other competitor protesting the RO on the basis the PY hit should have been more severe. And in both cases the redress hearing would take about two minutes flat. The Race Committee has the authority to set whatever handicaps it likes. I have in the past turned up at an event and been given a 50 point hit because "I [The RO] heard that [my class] won everything at the [redacted] last month and I didn't want it happening here." It was pathetic, childish and ill informed, but he was within his rights to do it, and our only alternative was to turn around and go back home. And in point of fact, although I did sail that day, I have never entered an event at that club since.

Heh heh I got something like that at the tiger a few years ago - hmm you looked like you were going as fast as a Merlin (upwind in light patchy stuff, very scientific) so after inspecting your boat and agreeing to a yardstick, I'm putting you onto a Merlin PY so a 40pt ish  slashing with retrospective corrections to your results.
Pursuit race was great, a modern merlin is about 2kts quicker all around the compass in breeze.
But thems the rules and if you don't like it don't compete!


Edited by Daniel Holman - 07 Feb 13 at 12:11pm

So....3 days after the thread starts with speculation in one area, and expands to cover several more, has anyone sent an email to Speed Sails, the organisers of either the Tiger or the Sailjuice Series or the Fireball class?


Edited by Hitcher - 07 Feb 13 at 12:33pm

Hummmm....I would never take advice from a Frenchman and particularly not one who advocated slicing women's bum cheeks off in a siege.