Moving the windward mark

Originally posted by ClubRacer Edit; You mention redress but some people aren't willing to protest and some will want to cash in on the series score ultimately this decision screws the whole series

Are you sure that this action by the RO has any greater effect than all the other times when there was a wind shift and the RO did NOT respond?

Originally posted by ClubRacer after having another look it looks as if i could protest under 62.1A as per jims comment and it could potentially be abandoned under 64.2 anyone concur?

CASE 55
A boat cannot protest the race committee. However, she may request redress

The time you have spent faffing around on the Internet has probably exceeded the reasonable time allowed for the submission of a request for redress.

However, if you politely wrote or emailed the Race Committee, explaining your concerns, they could still abandon the race under rule 32.

Originally posted by ClubRacer This is all hypothetical and did not actually happen. I can see it being an issue for the future so am arming my self so i can speak to the sailing committee to educate RO's for best practice

If this had been originally initiated as a discussion of good race management, dare I say it, in the Race Management forum, instead of a question about 'protesting', it might have got some more helpful responses sooner.

Originally posted by ClubRacer moving the marks so boat A does 1KM course and boat B does 1.2KM course is just stupid. And Jim; Moving the mark in a radius around the leeward to create a nice windward leeward course is fine as long as the RO and the people in the ribs are competent to keep and eye and adjust accordingly as to not give any 1 boat an advantage. But this is a little hard to come by and educate for just a small club series.

I don't think anyone responding here underestimates the difficulty of doing a leg change with a spread out fleet. Yes, it needs an exceptionally good club race management team to bring it off reliably. Yes, for average lap racing, there's a significant risk that a change, even if executed strictly in accordance with rule 33, may provide less fair racing than no change at all.

If your club, as Organising Authority, directed your race committee, under rule 90.1, to not change legs under rule 33, at least for average lap racing, I, for one, wouldn't see anything wrong with that.