Section A — Protests; Redress; Support Persons

• (a) A boat may request redress.
• (b) The race committee or the technical committee may request redress for a boat.
• (c) The protest committee may call a hearing to consider redress for a boat.

• (a) A request for redress shall be in writing and identify the reason for making it.

• (b) A request shall be delivered to the race office (or by such other method as stated in the sailing instructions):

  • (1) if it is based on an incident in the racing area, within the protest time limit or two hours after the incident (whichever is later),
  • (2) if it is based on a protest committee decision on the last scheduled day of racing, no later than 30 minutes after the decision was posted, or
  • (3) for all other requests, as soon as reasonably possible after the relevant information is available.

  However, the protest committee shall extend the time if there is good reason to do so.

A request for redress is invalid if it does not comply with rule 61.2.

• (a) The protest committee shall conduct a hearing as required by rule 63 to decide whether to grant redress.
• (b) A boat is entitled to redress if her score or place in a race or series has been made, or may be made, significantly worse through no fault of her own by
  • (1) an improper action or improper omission of a committee or the organizing authority, but not by a protest committee decision when the boat was a party to the hearing,
  • (2) injury or physical damage because of the action of a boat that was breaking a rule of Part 2 and took an appropriate penalty or was penalized,
  • (3) injury or physical damage because of the action of a vessel not racing that was required to keep clear or is determined to be at fault under the IRPCAS or a government right-of-way rule,
  • (4) giving help (except to herself or her crew) in compliance with rule 1.1, or
  • (5) an action of another boat, or a crew member or support person of that boat, that resulted in a penalty under rule 2 or a penalty or warning under rule 69.
• (c) If a boat is entitled to redress, the protest committee shall make as fair an arrangement as possible for all boats affected, whether or not they asked for redress. This may be to adjust the scoring (see rule A9 for examples) or finishing times of boats, to abandon the race, to let the results stand or to make some other arrangement.
• (d) If there is doubt about the facts or probable results of any arrangement for the race or series, especially before abandoning the race, the protest committee shall take evidence from appropriate sources.