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Rule 69.1: Obligation not to Commit Misconduct; Resolution | Protest Room

Part 5 — Protests, Redress, Hearings, Misconduct And Appeals

Section C — Misconduct

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69.1

Obligation not to Commit Misconduct; Resolution

(a) A competitor, boat owner or support person shall not commit an act of misconduct.
(b) Misconduct is:
- (1) conduct that is a breach of good manners, a breach of good sportsmanship, or unethical behaviour; or
- (2) conduct that may bring, or has brought, the sport into disrepute.
(c) An allegation of a breach of rule 69.1(a) shall be resolved in accordance with the provisions of rule 69. It shall not be grounds for a protest.

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In a fleet race either for one-design boats or for boats racing under a handicap or rating system, a boat may use tactics that clearly interfere with and hinder another boat’s progress in the race, provided that, if she is protested under rule 2 for doing so, the protest committee finds that there was a reasonable chance of her tactics benefiting her final ranking in the event. However, she breaks rule 2 , and possibly rule 69.1(a) , if while using those tactics she intentionally breaks a rule.

Rule 69.2

- (a) A protest committee acting under this rule shall have at least three members. - (b) When a protest committee, from its own observation or from information...