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ASok
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Topic: Obstructed course, race abandon? Posted: 07 Jul 17 at 12:44pm |
Recent event at the club for discussion and advice:
Sailing on the river, mixed fleet in a club pursuit race. One boat manages to get caught out in a gust and capsizes over a mark and gets in a real mess - boat and mark completely tangled. A couple of boats manage to scoot round the tangle and continue racing, but others are stuck because there is insufficient room to pass due to the presence of the bank. In the end it was all a mess and the race was abandoned with people taking an early trip to the clubhouse. However, a few boats could have finished. My questions are - should this race have been abandoned? If not, how can you progress with the course blocked? Is there a claim do those leading boats have for redress or points for that race? Just keen to learn from this one. Thanks.
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JimC
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 07 Jul 17 at 1:20pm |
An RC may abandon a race "for any other reason directly affecting ... the fairness of the competition" (RRS 32.1d) so abandoning the race was not wrong.
Redress doesn't seem to be available. These are the 4 reasons redress may be granted:
It seems to me that, with redress unavailable the choice the RC had was letting the race stand or abandoning. By the sounds of it more innocent parties would have been disadvantaged by letting the race stand, so its hard to say the RC got it definitively wrong. |
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Brass
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 07 Jul 17 at 1:25pm |
Rule 32 provides as follows (significant bits bolded):
Clearly, if it is not physically possible for some boats to sail the course prescribed in the SI because it is obstructed:
Yes the race committee should abandon the race. No, no score should be recorded for boats that finished if the race is abandoned.
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ClubRacer
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 07 Jul 17 at 5:05pm |
Had the race not have been abandoned could you claim redress on the basis you weren't able to finish or had the obstruction cleared enough for you to finish but it seriously affects your score?If so under what rule
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Brass
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 07 Jul 17 at 10:58pm |
Yes. Rule 62.1( a ). The race committee omitted to either replace the mark with a mark that it was possible to round or to abandon the race. Consider RYA Case RYA 1989/10
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ASok
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Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 10 Jul 17 at 5:30pm |
Thanks all. Useful points as ever to reflect on. Looks like the call to abandon was the right thing to do. Plenty of races left in that series, so no-one should feel too hard done by.
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