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Date Event yyyy/mm/dd	Event Name	Comments	Dates yyyy/mm/dd

2012-1-16	Quantum Key West 2012		Published 2012-1-24

2012-1-11	2012 Asian Windsurfing Championship & SIM 31st Singapore Open	The wind was light.SI and NOR were well written. No issue for race management.	Published 2012-1-24

2012-1-7	2012 IFDS WORLDS	We had a Sonar Boat prepared to be controled by two helmsman, one in the middle with a handle device and another in the stern steering with two tiller extensions as an adaptation to the helmsman dissability, for safety reasons. Under IFDS and Class rules there are no rules broken. We flaged a 2.4 boat for breaking rule 42.2 (a), was repeated fanning of the jib by pulling and releasing the tack line at time when surfing or planning was not posible. The event PRO changed the protest time limit in the RRS and the limit recommended in the Appendix LE (SI Guide) to one protest time limit for all three racing areas, at the discretion of the PRO. Also instead of using the notice board to inform competitors of the protest time limits, he decided to use flag B to signal both the beginning and the end of protest time. The result was that when some racing areas finished earlier then others, the sailors had to wait an additional time, sometimes up to two hours, to learn if they were involved in a protest. The practice became a very unpopular issue on one day, when the PRO signaled the begining of the protest time period, by displaying the B flag, more than 2 hours after the last boat arrived ashore to keep the sailors in the boat park in order to attend the daily prize giving. In this case, the disabled sailors had to stay in the boat park for between three and five hours. The chairman of the jury and the IFDS technical delegate asked, and the PRO to change the policy and the PRO refused saying it was more important to have the sailors at the social event then release them to change and return to the boat park for the daily awards ceremony . With only two days left in the racing, the jury chair and TD decided not to make an public issue and let the procedure continue.	Published 2012-1-24

2012-1-4	2012 Trofeo Marcello Campobasso		Published 2012-1-9

2012-1-3	2012 International Class Yngling World Championship	From a Juries point of view the regatta was uneventful, 16 hours spent on the water over four days with two jury boats and 5 IJ's and not one RRS 42 infringement was seen. There were 5 boat on boat protests all fairly strait forward 2 were RRS 10 and 3 were RRS 18.2b The relationship between the Race Management and the International Jury excellent	Published 2012-1-9

2011-12-28	35th New Year's Regatta - Laser Europa Cup Hvar-CRO	Two judges were assigned for arbitration. For both protests submitted, none of the parties decided to go for arbitration, so hearings were done by full International Jury. To have properly constituted International Jury some of the judges were observers at the hearings. There were no objections by the parties to have observers present. At one hearing protestee did not show up, so after waiting, International Jury decided to continue hearing according to RRS 63.3(b). There were two requests for redress by the competitors. Marklayer has moved the offset mark to its original position, which had drifted due to uneven depth; strong wind and high waves at the moment competitors were at half of the beat to windward. International Jury found that mark was repositioned to its original position according to RRS 34(a) without error and any effect to competitors who were all on the previous leg to windward, so redress was not given. Good race management. Good decision to send fleet ashore when storm was comming.	Published 2012-1-4

2011-12-27	2011 420 Int Class SouthAmerican Championship		Published 2012-1-6

2011-12-27	2012 Fireball World & 46th Australian Championships	NOR and SI are well written. There were few requests for redress on black flag start and rescue boats did not do their job but were dismissed. SI has offered a choice of arbitration but no sailor took it. The wind was very strong and race officer has to send the fleet back to shore one afternoon. On the water job was well executed. Most of the helpers had experiences from World Championships in Perth two weeks earlier.	Published 2012-1-24

2011-12-26	2011 Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race	During the Rolex Sydney Hobart Yacht Race a protest was brought by the Race Committee against the provisional line honours winner Investec Loyal alleging a breach of RRS 41. The allegation was that during the Race a crew member of the yacht was interview by the crew of the ABC TV Helicopter. During the interview the crewman from the yacht asked - if Wild Oats XI was flying a trysail, as against a mainsail - the helicopter crew responded - they were not sailors and could not answer the question - the yachts crew member asked what colour the sail was. The helicopter crew replied - the colour was grey and not a bright colour - the crew member responded - copy that, that?s great news -. There were two parts to the protest. One was whether the boat received - help - in contravention of RRS 41. The other whether the boat requested information in contravention of SI 49.3 The International Jury was satisfied that the question asked by the crew member (whose company North Sails Aust. manufactured the mainsail on Wild Oats XI) was pre-empted by his keen personal and commercial interest in its integrity and the information that the mainsail (the only one on board WILD OATS XI) was still being used, was of interest to him personally. The fact that there was - a clear commercial and personal interest by the crew-member in asking these questions- was incidental. The important finding was that the boat did not receive -help- as provided in RRS 41. Whether or not there was a personal interest was of no consequence. Asking for information does not break RRS 41 (though it might break RRS 2). To break RRS 41 a boat must receive - help - The Jury decided that requesting - information about which sail an opponent is using - was not asking for - race information - in contravention to SI 49.3 and the protest was dismissed. Race management was excellent.	Published 2012-1-9

2011-12-17	Malta Euromed Regatta 2011	none, we only had 4 protests, one was withdrawn, whilst another two were handled together. An Int. Judge who accepted to officiate (through Eurosaf Exchange) declined less that two weeks prior to the event. This was due to injury. The OA asked several judges within our area but none could make it. Hence we nevertheless presented ourselves as an Int. Jury (and explained the situation at the briefing). MLT had three judges on board, one IJ (me) and two NJ's who took it in turns to sit in and or observe. The absence of an IJ at tis event wasn't significant however it could be at other events.	Published 2011-12-30

2011-12-11	2011 ARAB GAMES		Published 2011-12-29

2011-12-9	Rolex Trophy 2011	NIL The relationship between Race Management and the Protest Committee was excellent.	Published 2012-1-9

2011-12-9	St. Nicholas 2011	Rule 69 applied with a strong warning to one competitor for a little theft; the competitor apologized to everyone involved and retired from following races.	Published 2012-1-16

2011-12-5	2011 F18 European Championship		Published 2011-12-20

2011-12-3	Phuket Kings Cup	Prior to main event, but a part of it,I ran International Dingy Classes Regatta for 32 Optimists and 8 Lasers. We had 8 races each. It was a great success (again) During the main event we included Kite Boards for the first time. They didn't get off their beach on a couple of days due lack of suitable wind. However they gave a great showing when they did sail. PKCR was another outstanding success with 92 Entries over 9 classes and 64 races. There were two courses each run by IROs. Totals below	Published 2011-12-29

2011-11-18	Opatija Cup 2011		Published 2011-11-21

2011-11-18	National Day Regatta 2011		Published 2011-12-6

2011-11-15	The Kingdom Regatta 2011		Published 2011-11-21

2011-11-12	2011 Ding Schoonmaker Cup	As usual for the STAR Class there were no problems from them. Good conditions with 3 good races No problems RC work was smooth	Published 2011-11-19

2011-11-11	2011 Star Class North American Championship	Star Class Rules have many items that should be marked as "permitted to change" and or updated to the current RRS. Some Rules are either not workable or not allowed under the RRS as worded. It took considerable thought to develop a workable re-weighing system that would work when a race was sailed, AP over H was displayed and then followed by AP over A ashore. Tough weather conditions. Some wind early but then went light and died. No racing on one day. Last two days had to wait until 1400 + to get in two good races each day. The RC did a great job.	Published 2011-11-19

2011-11-11	J 24 World Championship	The jury was discussing the question if redress may be given, if a boat took a scoring penalty on the water, but in a hearing was found that she was compelled to break a rule by another boat, that was disqualified in that hearing. The discussions will lead to a question that will be lodged to the ISAF Q&A-Panel in due time.	Published 2011-11-21

2011-11-7	ISAF Sailing World Cup - Sail Melbourne 2012	Mostly RRS 42 work for the jury. Only 2 redress hearings. No boat-on-boat protests. Excellent Race Management in difficult and changing conditions. There were 3 IRO's on the course plus several NRO's.	Published 2011-11-21

2011-10-29	South French Laser - Mediterranean		Published 2011-11-5

2011-10-29	22nd Marmaria International Race Week (MIRW)		Published 2011-11-13

2011-10-28	China Cup 2011	This is the keelboats event. The NOR and SI were well written but there is room for improvement,i.e., last day time limit to reopen cases, how to deal with damages when the boat at wrong did her turns and the case did not come to the jury. Many of the protests were on RRS 18 since there were 4 windward leeward races out of 7 races during the 4-day event. No request for redress. The race office and his team did an outstanding job on the water. There was no request for redress from on-the-water actions.	Published 2011-11-1

2011-10-26	Open Croatian Championship AOC	Except on the first day the weather conditions were difficult with very little wind, but local PRO tried his best and was in constant searching of the best option. He managed to finish enough regattas for the championship to be valid for all classes.	Published 2011-11-13

2011-10-22	2011 RS.X YOUTH WORLD WINDSURFING CHAMPIONSHIP+U 17 + TECHNO 293 EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP + RACEBOARD	NO PROBLEMS VERY GOOD CONTACTS WITH THE R.C. AND ORGANIZATION	Published 2011-11-10

2011-10-21	Abu Dhabi Open Regatta 2011		Published 2011-11-1

2011-10-21	2011 North Island Optimist Open Championships	P2.1 was used for all appendix P penalties. No abuse of r42 was observed because of this change. The Race Management were perfecting their process and resources in readiness for the same team being involved with the Optimist World Championships in two months time. The Race Management team did very well.	Published 2011-10-29

2011-10-19	JSAF Enoshima Olympic Week 2011	The NOR and SI were very good despite there were 2 languages written. The sailors were well trained. When they broke a rule, they did penalty immediately. So we have no hearing at all. At the same venue, there was National sailing event for non-Olympic classes and there was a National Protest Committee to due with rule 42 and the hearing. Before the event, the was a Rule 42 workshop to Japanese NJs and sailors conducted by Zofia Truchanowicz (IJ,IU-POL), ISAF Rule 42 expert. After the prize giving, another short Rule 42 workshop was also conducted by Zofia. Both workshops were quite successful. On-the-water jobs were done perfectly by local Japanese race officers.	Published 2011-10-24

2011-10-17	CORK Fall Regatta	C420 RO displayed course signal that was not being used by this class in error. Only one C420 sailed the proper course displayed and protested the seven C420 who failed to sail the course as posted were DSQd under 28.1 Race officer applied for redress for the seven DSQd C420 due to significant RC error that their scores were made worst due to no fault of their own. Redress was granted due to an improper change to the sailing Instruction posted by the PRO not following the required instructions in the sailing instructions, i.e., Code Flag L was not displayed with the posting as well as a numerical pennant indicating the change number to the sailing instructions.The competitors were unaware of the change to the sailing instructions. The C420 that sailed the course displayed was scored first and the other finishers were scored in order of their finish plus one position down, i.e., 1 moved to 2, 2 moved 3, etc...	Published 2011-9-23

2011-10-16	Pan American Games	Addendum Q: The lack of a significant difference between a penalty taken voluntarily by a competitor and one given by an umpire means there is no incentive designed into the rule to encourage a competitor to act quickly after an incident rather then wait, and hope, for a more favorable an umpire decision. Additionally, it was difficult to agree on what would bring an umpire to conclude when a boat broke rule 2 by knowing she had broke a rule but waiting for an umpire decision. In practice, the rule design encourages a competitor to immediately counter protest and avoid giving an umpire the opportunity conclude she should receive a second penalty. Since the medal race courses are windward-leewards, as in Match Racing, it is recommended that the voluntary penalty be reduced to the "Match Race-270 turn" penalty while the umpire imposed penalty remain a 1-Turn penalty. The Medal Race was judged using the latest version of Addendum Q. That version, which changes the penalty for a Appendix P to the Addendum red flag (1-turn) penalty for the medal race, was well received. Medal Race Fleet Size: The Medal Race fleets consisted of the top 5 boats rather then top 10. With the maximum number of points to only 10 in the final race, many class results and medals were determined before the medal race. Consideration of increasing the multiplier to 3x should be given for future "Small Fleet" Medal Race events. Jorge Barreda comments: Superb facilities, 6 brand new jury Ribs. In a request for redress submited by two board sailors alleging that the RC did not abandon the race after the 15 minute time limit to the first windward mark has expired was rejected by the International Jury on the ground that this action did not make the sailors scores worst.	Published 2011-10-29

2011-10-11	6th Sail Qatar 2011	The NOR and SI were good. We had a case on rule 69 on an Opti sailor threw bottles of water to 2 other boats. The warning was given. Another incident where one sailor just stopped his Laser close to finishing line and let another boat finished before him. We found no evident of team racing so case dismissed. The race management had some small problem on the first day since most of on-the-water personnel were local who had limited experiences. But everything improved significantly later. They managed to finished all 60 races, 6 classes, 10 races each.	Published 2011-10-18

2011-10-2	India International Regatta 2011	Race management was excellent. Overall a very well run regatta.	Published 2011-10-18

2011-10-2	TP 52 World Championship	ISAF approved the useage of as modified Addendum Q in August 2011. The change to the normal Addendum was the inclusion of a Pink Flag, later changed to Yellow. Umpires would show this flag if an incident remained unseen and this would hence give the sailors the possibility of bringing the case into the protest room. This flag was never struck. We displayed a total of 7 green flags during the event. Total cooperation from the Class and sailors. Yacht Club Costa Smeralda, as usual were excellent hosts. We operated using 2 X 7 mt RIBS powered by 200 HP engines. These were refulled and cleaned daily. No comments - the RO followed the modus operandi used at the Audi Medcup - a system that is appreciated by all. An event with top sailors and high performance boats. One of the judges invited to the event opted to decline approx 2 weeks prior to the event. Luckily, Admiral Alberini accepted to kindly join the jury. I was informed of this by the YCCS. Prior to the event I was informed that a TP 52 Worlds may not always be considered as a principal event. This is a pity and maybe Organising Authorities and Officials should be better guided. To me, an event with such top sailors and such a Class is automatically a Principal event. This effects choice of events to bid for due to sponsorship reasons and furthermore choice of events for officials to select due to time and ISAF status renewal reasons.	Published 2011-10-29

2011-10-1	9th IODA AFRICAN CHAMPIONSHIP		Published 2011-10-10

2011-9-30	German Champions Trophy	This was a German Championship for Olympic classes. In each class with a medal race under Addendum Q. After the final races in the different classes a race was organiced in SB3-Boats in which the winners sailed against eachother.	Published 2011-10-29

2011-9-29	Regata Oce?nica Internacional Copa Galapagos	The last race of the regatta scheduled to start at 1800 hrs was postponed. When the RC began the starting sequence the sun had set and there was no light to see the pin end of the line. The PRO identified three boats as OCS and one of them requested redress. During the hearing, the PRO stated that the pin end of the line was barely visible and that his committee was trying to illuminate it from the signal boat. He also stated that the pin end of the line was not squared to the wind due to a wind shift making the signal boat the windward end of the line. The sailor stated that he didn't think he was over the line because even though he could not see the pin end of the line, he could see the signal boat at a 45 degree angle. All three boats returned to the line to start properly because the RC had hailed them as OCS over the VHF radio. Redress was awarded (70 seconds deducted from their overall time) to all three boats that were identified as OCS even though only one boat had requested redress (RRS 64.2). Other than that incident, the race was a beautiful 700 nautical mile race to the island of Santa Cruz in the Galapagos and to the islands of Isabela and San Cristobal.	Published 2011-10-18

2011-9-29	Shark 24 Europeans 2011	9 races were scheduled, but due to very little wind only 3 races were completed. Fortunately this was enough to constitute the championship.	Published 2011-10-5

2011-9-28	Audi Melges 20 Eurocup	For this event and the whole Audi Melges 20 series in Europe a system for umpired fleet racing was used, that in case of no answers from the umpires to a protest flag, a competitor is entitled to a hearing ashore. This system is approved by the Italian MNA and works very well.	Published 2011-10-5

2011-9-24	LES VOILES DE SAINT TROPEZ	Difficult, due to the lack of wind...	Published 2011-10-5

2011-9-22	Italian National Olympic Dinghies Championship - 2.4 National Championship	Sailing Instructions similar to the World Cup SI. No medal race.	Published 2011-10-10

2011-9-22	Laser St Southamerican Championship	The Jury modified the SI before the event. A hearing that could have ended in a rule 69. The RC did a good job, including some rough sea conditions that arise the poor conditions of the Jury ribs.	Published 2011-10-18

2011-9-19	REGATES ROYALES		Published 2011-9-28

2011-9-17	Lase Radial Southamerican Championship	Not very good conditions of the Jury ribs	Published 2011-10-18

2011-9-16	2011 Delta Lloyd Open Dutch Championships		Published 2011-10-18

2011-9-11	International 505 Class E.C. 2011 & Eurocup 2011	The race, as usual on 5o5 class championships, has been held using the staring gate system. The staff of the Club, because of the inexperience about the system and some objective problems due to the very deep water, did start the first races with some problems. This caused few request of redress by the competitors, all upheld. The full program of races has been carried out, allowing the competitors to discard 2 races. Fine and regular races in both the wind conditions typical of Lake of Garda (wind from North in the morning and from South in the afternoon), added to a friendly atmosphere and good social events contributed to determine the success of the event.	Published 2012-1-24

2011-9-10	International Musto Performance Skiff Open European Championship 2011	There was no Appendix P in action, Jury was on water for sailors assistance and security. Three protests were lodged of which two for the same incident were withdrawn after the protestee has retired from the race in question. In a hearing of a boat against boat protest it was revealed only at the end of the hearing that the protest does not meet the requirements of RRS 61.2(b). Initially both parties confirmed the validity of the data stated on the protest form, but after further questioning it was clear and confirmed by both parties that the protest form did not contain the correct data and was found invalid. Race committee did a good job in light winds situation, fairness of the races was never questionable.	Published 2011-10-5

2011-9-10	RS:X European Windsurfing Championships 2011		Published 2011-9-23

2011-9-10	RS:X European Windsurfing Championships 2011		Published 2011-9-23

2011-9-10	Centomiglia 2011		Published 2011-10-29

2011-9-9	HC16 Asian Championship	No comment No comment	Published 2011-9-23

2011-9-9	J24 2011 European Championship	In the light of the severe gale, being the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, hitting Ireland on the practice race day and Day 1 of the championship, causing racing to be abandoned completely and only one race being sailed on Day 2, the race management was faced with the challenge of staging the 9 remaining races on Days 3 & 4 which the Race Officer and his team completed with commendable efficiency. All credit to the Howth Yacht Club for this achievement and for providing the jury with all the support they needed.	Published 2011-9-23

2011-9-8	Etchells North American Championship		Published 2011-9-23

2011-9-7	Tornado European Champioship		Published 2011-9-23

2011-9-5	44th Balkan Sailing Championship	Very well organised event, excelent performance of the PRO Orhan Tuker and the two course race officers Pinar Koskuner Gens and Emrah Surmen.	Published 2011-9-11

2011-9-5	Maxi Yacht Rolex Cup		Published 2011-9-23

2011-9-3	International 14 World Championship and Prince of Wales Cup	Due to severe weather conditions the Team Racing was abandoned and racing only took place on 4 of the 10 scheduled races. Championship Race 2 and the Prince of Wales Cup (UK national championship) were combined into a single race but two results were posted. Due to prior lack of information the jury held a pre-racing meeting with class representatives to ascertain their requirements for the regatta and the action the jury should take. This ensured a successful regatta, apart from the weather conditions. The race committee did a sterling job completing all the championship races in either the harbour or in the bay.	Published 2011-9-28

2011-9-2	DRAGON GOLD CUP	Heavy winds, two days spent ashore, only three racing days.	Published 2011-9-23

2011-9-2	Mini Maxi Rolex World Championship		Published 2011-9-23