3rd Party Protest
Posted: Mon Apr 29, 2013 7:45 pm
Third Party protests.
Sometimes a skipper is seen to have violated a rule and does not get protested. Maybe the fouled skipper is just not knowledgeable, intimidated or maybe ‘too nice a person’.
If you are in the same regatta what can you as a third party do?
If you are a skipper in the same heat, you can protest the offending skipper in the normal manner, staring your number, the boat number you are protesting and you should identify the number of the boat fouled. If the offending skipper declines, does not acknowledge and do the required turn(s), report the violation to the protest committee after the heat is over. The race committee can also protest a boat in this manner.
You will need witnesses of course. Skippers in the same regatta but in different heats watching can be witnesses even though they are not in the heat.
Why should you do this? It is simply a matter of fair play. Every boat is affected by any skipper who gets an advantaged position as a result of not taking a penalty turn. It is not fair to any skipper in the regatta, not just that heat.
Two Rules come into play. 60 and Appendix E6.1
60.1
A boat may
(a) protest another boat, but not for an alleged breach of a rule of Part 2 or rule 31 unless she was involved in or saw the incident. Appendix E changes this to restrict it to only a boat scheduled to be in that heat.
60.2 A race committee may
(a) protest a boat, but not as a result of information arising from a request for redress or an invalid protest, or from a report from an interested party other than the representative of the boat herself;
(b) request redress for a boat; or
(c) report to the protest committee requesting action under rule 69.2(a).
Appendix E6.1 Right to Protest
Rule 60.1 is changed to:
A boat may
(a) protest another boat, but not for an alleged breach of a rule of Part 2, 3 or 4 unless she was scheduled to sail in that heat
Sometimes a skipper is seen to have violated a rule and does not get protested. Maybe the fouled skipper is just not knowledgeable, intimidated or maybe ‘too nice a person’.
If you are in the same regatta what can you as a third party do?
If you are a skipper in the same heat, you can protest the offending skipper in the normal manner, staring your number, the boat number you are protesting and you should identify the number of the boat fouled. If the offending skipper declines, does not acknowledge and do the required turn(s), report the violation to the protest committee after the heat is over. The race committee can also protest a boat in this manner.
You will need witnesses of course. Skippers in the same regatta but in different heats watching can be witnesses even though they are not in the heat.
Why should you do this? It is simply a matter of fair play. Every boat is affected by any skipper who gets an advantaged position as a result of not taking a penalty turn. It is not fair to any skipper in the regatta, not just that heat.
Two Rules come into play. 60 and Appendix E6.1
60.1
A boat may
(a) protest another boat, but not for an alleged breach of a rule of Part 2 or rule 31 unless she was involved in or saw the incident. Appendix E changes this to restrict it to only a boat scheduled to be in that heat.
60.2 A race committee may
(a) protest a boat, but not as a result of information arising from a request for redress or an invalid protest, or from a report from an interested party other than the representative of the boat herself;
(b) request redress for a boat; or
(c) report to the protest committee requesting action under rule 69.2(a).
Appendix E6.1 Right to Protest
Rule 60.1 is changed to:
A boat may
(a) protest another boat, but not for an alleged breach of a rule of Part 2, 3 or 4 unless she was scheduled to sail in that heat