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All starts were with Papa flag   Published 2012-5-9   2012-5-2   Regatta Port Burgas - 2012 Bourgas Sailing Week     Published 2012-5-7   2012-5-2   DOUARNENEZ     Published 2012-5-6   2012-4-28   DOUARNENEZ     Published 2012-5-6   2012-4-23   Contender Worlds   Nil One IJ (Elliot Levy) became unavailable for the event as of the day of the opening ceremony. A UK passport bearing person, with limited knowledge, was co-opted for panel duties should they be needed. They were not needed!   Published 2012-5-7   2012-4-20   44th Semaine Olympic Francaise (SOF 2012)     Published 2012-5-17   2012-4-13   2012 - European Star Championship   The designated PRO, due to parent's illness, was not not able to attend. The Race Officer take charge of the event and run it smoothly.   Published 2012-4-25   2012-4-12   ISA Misubishi Youth National Championships     Published 2012-4-16   2012-4-10   Commodore's Cup Regatta   Racing on one day was unnecessarily delayed by port authorities waiting for a US Navy ship to leave the port. The IJ's also judged in the first race of the newly established International Flying Fifteen fleet in Subic ('match race' between leading TP52 skippers)   Published 2012-4-18   2012-4-8   Maclaren Laser Standard Under 21 World Championship 2012   The wind conditions were very light and challenging for the race committee. Only six of the twelve scheduled races were sailed.   Published 2012-5-2   2012-4-6   Eurocup 29er     Published 2012-4-25   2012-4-6   27th Magic Marine International Easter Optimist Regatta     Published 2012-4-16   2012-4-6   Easter Regatta 2012, JK PIRAT, Optimist     Published 2012-4-10   2012-4-6   SNIM   About four minutes before the start of race No 3 a crew member fall overboard. The helmsman tried to recuperate the crew without success and requested the help of the Jury boat. The jury boat acted immediately and managed to collect the crew on board the jury boat. The helmsman after observing that the crew was safe on board the jury boat, sailed towards the starting line, started and finished the race without taking any action to get the crew member back on board. The International Jury called and investigation under RRS 69 and accepted the helmsman?s explanations for not attempting to transfer the crew from the jury PVC boat to his boat due to very bad weather conditions. The International Jury protested the boat under RRS 47.2 and 2. The boat was scored DNE.   Published 2012-4-16   2012-4-6   Europa Cup Laser FRA     Published 2012-4-16   2012-4-5   Emirates Open Regatta   all ok all ok   Published 2012-4-10   2012-4-5   XXX Optimist Meeting   In the cadetti course the RC abbandoned a race after the firts 4 boats has finished and scored all the boats as DNF (including the 4 arrived). Later the RC decided to give redress to the firsts 4 and scored them as they finshed and DNF for all the rest of the fleet. After several req of redress for improper action of the RC in abbandoning the race the Jury gave a redress in the way that: the race need to be resailed and any of first 4 boats can recive a scoring worste the their final position in the previous race. The Jury had not any req of redress or claim on this decision.   Published 2012-4-16   2012-4-4   2012 Zoom 8 Boys and Girls European Championship   No problems with OA To start with line was a bit short but this was soon resolved   Published 2012-4-16   2012-4-2   ISRAEL Chp.TEL-AVIV SPRING REGATTA.   The event was without any problem. The RO's excellent functioning. The wind at all three days of competition was 8-12 knot.   Published 2012-4-25   2012-3-31   Maclaren Laser 4.7 Youth World Championship 2012     Published 2012-4-16   2012-3-31   2012 Optimist South American Championship   The decision to remove the protest flag requirement from the SI's did not have any apparent effect on protests and hearings. It was well received by the Jury as it simplifies the procedure. The decision to remove the "whistle rule" from the SI's may have resulted in two Jury-initiated hearings for mark touches, which may have been avoided altogether in the older system. A team leader reported an incident of verbal and physical aggression between sailors on the same team, while not racing. The Jury had an informal conversation with the sailors but no further action was taken under the rules.   Published 2012-4-10   2012-3-31   Optispring 2012   Good organized regatta , day one 16 - 20 Knots and very cold ,day two 8 - 10 Knots still very cold Some scoring problems that the jury had to resolve   Published 2012-4-2   2012-3-30   Flying Dutchman Open European Championship   The jury chairman was unable to attend for medical reasons and was replaced by Trevor Lewis, Vice Chairman.   Published 2012-4-10   2012-3-30   BVI Spring Regatta 2012     Published 2012-4-10   2012-3-29   Europa Cup Laser 2012     Published 2012-4-2   2012-3-28   4th Gulf Council Countries Sailing Championship   Nothing to report under this heading. The 4th Gulf Council Countries Sailing Championship was the first international event, ever hosted by Saudi Arabia, who became a member of ISAF about 3 years ago. The event was organised by the Saudi Arabian Maritime Sports Federation. Given the lack of expertise in organising events, the Championship ran amazingly smoothly, due to the enthusiasm of the organisers and the help of race officials from some of the participating countries. The Jury members had to help as well, performing some tasks, normally done by Race office staff. Due to the lack of suitable RIBs, the Jury had to use ski-jets to apply Appendix P. Compared to last years Championship, the number of participants has increased and although small by European standards, indicates a steady development of the sport in this part of the world.   Published 2012-4-6   2012-3-28   16th EASTER REGATTA     Published 2012-4-10   2012-3-24   2012 Orange Peel Regatta   One hearing one competitor Dsq for 18.2b, 14 with damage. Incident occurred at finish pin race 3, clear astern boat attempted to to finish inside of a boat at the pin. This boat was not overlapped when the clear ahead boat reached the zone. Collision occurred with damage. Sailor didn't understand that the zone is around a finish mark PRO did a good job controlling a fairly aggressive fleet with penalty prep flags I and Z. Four races completed out of the five scheduled, doging thunder storms or big breeze both days. Many capsizes on day two forced the end of racing as not enough safety boats were on the course   Published 2012-4-10   2012-3-22   2012 Star South American Championship     Published 2012-4-6   2012-3-16   Laser Europa Cup Slovenia   Due to very shifty and unstable wind conditions only six races were sailed in three days. Many course changes were made but only Laser standards successfully completed three races. Laser Radials and Laser 4.7 completed only one race. Race committee protested 25 LRDs for sailing outer instead of signaled inner loop infringing RRS28.1. All the protests were heard together and only one girl competitor showed up at the hearing. Hearing continued under 63.3 (b) and all the protested boats under RRS 28.1 were DSQ. OA provided two RRS 42 observes who were also observing hearing. Good race management in very tough wind and weather conditions.   Published 2012-3-22   2012-3-16   2012 Finn Open Europeans & Junior Open Europeans     Published 2012-3-26   2012-3-10   Hainan Round the Island race 2012 (Ahola Race 2012)   The NOR and Sailing Instructions needs some improvement on IRC handicap procedure and racing schedule and scoring.Most of the protests were on Part 2 and some were request for redress on unclear instructions and keelboats class rules. The race management were very good despite light wind and difficult conditions.   Published 2012-3-26   2012-3-10   Florida State Optimist Championship   PRO and RC did a very good job running races. Square lines, abandoned races when the racing became unfair. The classic OPTI trapezoid was the only course set and the RC did a fine job of rotating the course when the wind shifted. The PRO was receptive to suggestions concerning gate width and mark placement during the regatta   Published 2012-4-2   2012-3-7   Split Olympic Sailing Week 2012     Published 2012-3-22   2012-3-7   Split Olympic Sailing Week 2012   Only one boat to boat protest, the rest was protests by RC or jury... in addition to one request for redress Difficult conditions at this time of the year, but still fair sailing. All teams worked well together.   Published 2012-3-11   2012-3-6   2012 Laser Masters World Championships   One day was lost due to lack of wind but these races were made up on the last 2 days of racing. Overall the competitors were well behaved and provided tight racing. The facilities were what was to be expected from a club of the Royal Queensland Yacht Squadron's standing and coped with the competitor numbers in an efficient manner, including the launch and recovery of the boats.. Two courses were used, one for the Standard and 4.7 fleet and the other for the Radial Fleet. There was a IRO on bravo course and a NRO on alpha course. The race management teams and support teams were very professional and no problems arose.   Published 2012-3-22   2012-3-3   2012 Farr 40 Australian Championship   The event was conducted over two days with three races per day. However the event was very poorly supported by the Class with only 8 entries, possibly the result of the cost of having to transport yachts considerable distances from interstate to participate in such a short event. There were 3 protests all involving boats approaching the windward mark on opposite tacks and one of them changing tack. The competitors seemed to either have little knowledge of RRS 13 & 18.3 or were attempting to push the envelope in the hope of getting away with their breach of the rules. One protest was dismissed and three boats were disqualified. Race management was excellent.   Published 2012-3-10   2012-3-3   Athens Eurolymp & National Hellenic Championships   All judges were used for Appendix P. There was a rotation of the Greek judges during the hearings in order to enable them to gain experience.   Published 2012-3-9   2012-3-2   16th Spring Meeting Optimist, Laser R, 4.7   Only one boat on boat protest. Race management was excellent. Very light and shifty wind conditions. Some races were abandoned, and it was accepted from coaches in very different ways. Following that RC made an amandement to the sailing instructions for the second and third day of racing on the code of conduct of team leaders, coaches and other support personnel.   Published 2012-3-15   2012-3-2   Laser Std and Radial Southamerican Championship     Published 2012-3-26   2012-2-28   Cannes Dragon Grand Prix 2012, IDC Grade 1     Published 2012-3-7   2012-2-25   Subic to Boracay Race and Boracay Cup   Jury sitting time 3 Hours On the water observation 10 hours All boats in fleets which suffered from stolen marks and request for redress were included in redress hearing and were happy with the decision. Fabulous consistent winds of 15-25 knots The Race Officer had to contend with marks being stolen (twice) on long races and subsequent redress hearings.   Published 2012-3-9   2012-2-20   International Etchells Clas World Championship 2012   A large number of incidents including contact at the first windward mark and first gate mark, many of which were not protested with relatively few voluntary penalty turns taken. The class would benefit from implementing the whistle system at the Worlds. On OCS enquiries or requests for redress the PRO conducted informal pre hearing meetings with Competitors and one or two Jury members present to review the available evidence. It was very effective in dealing with OCS issues. Excellent race management delivered quality racing and featured an outstanding level of commuinciation and cooperation with competitors. Question of what action should be taken, if any, when the Race Committee identifies a Competitor OCS on a Back Flag start when reviewing video evidence post race (not identified on the water)?   Published 2012-3-1   2012-2-18   63rd J.J.Giltinan Championship 2012   The regatta was conducted over seven days in varying conditions from very little wind to over 30 knots. Gotta Love It Seven won 6 of the 7 races and was placed 2 in the other race. There were 5 protests with requests for redress, all the result of collisions with serious damage with one or both skiffs being unable to continue racing. As the protests were in the early part of the regatta average points were awarded in accordance with Appendix A 10a. The race management was excellent   Published 2012-3-10   2012-2-18   38th Torneio Internacional de Vela do Carnaval de Vilamoura   Two reports under 69.1(e) were sent to two different national authorities for an infringement to RRS 28.1. The two hearing were made under 63.3(b) on the last day, with the parts not present, even being correctly posted on the ONB the intention to protest by the Internacional Jury, as stated in the sailing instructions. Being the last day of the event, and the parts were not present, the IJ decided that a hearing under RRS 69 could not be scheduled for a time and place when it would be reasonable for the competitors to attend. In general, the race management was poor.   Published 2012-2-22   2012-2-16   15th Asia Sailing Championship 2012   NOR and Sailing Instructions were well written. There was a problem on a coach that was on the racing area and refused to leave the area after a warning for the juries on the water. The Chairman will write a report to his MNA. There was also a report that a sailor of one nation has scolded using very bad language to another sailor and team leader of another nation at the boat park. The jury has investigated if it was Rule 96 but later that sailor apologised and another party accepted. Race management on the water was excellent.   Published 2012-4-2   2012-2-14   SEmaine International de Finn 2012     Published 2012-2-20   2012-2-11   Sail the Gulf 2012     Published 2012-2-17   2012-2-4   Brazilian Sailing Week   The 470 woman class requested to have umpired fleet race and we alocated two judges every day to cover their race. It was very well apreciated from the sailors.   Published 2012-2-12   2012-2-3   Primo Cup - Troph?e Credit Suisse   Nothing to be reported. The event was saile throughout two different weekends: 3rd - 5th February and 10th - 12th february. But the first day both weekends were showing intrestingly hard sailing conditions with wids around 30 knots and huge waves which caused a real selection in the entered crws and some damages to a couple of sails. Great opportunities for taking pictures to the sailing boats.   Published 2012-2-15   2012-2-3   Pataya International Multihull Festival   No comments on any of the topics mentioned above. The PRO, Neil Dunkley, did a great job and got away eleven races, some of them long distance ones, in five days. The cats were split into two fleets which worked out well. The regatta organisation was good and was led by Chris Dando and John Higham. One Jury RIB had a problem and was immediately replaced. Although there were ten classes, F16s, F18s and Darts accounted for the great bulk of the boats.   Published 2012-2-26   2012-2-3   Sail Auckland   Only three hearings.   Published 2012-2-8   2012-1-22   2012 Miami OCR - Sailing World Cup     Published 2012-5-9   2012-1-21   Campeonato Islas de Chiloe 2012   We use Addendum Q for the S40 fleet. 7 races of 25 miles each umpired.   Published 2012-3-26   2012-1-16   Quantum Key West 2012     Published 2012-1-24   2012-1-12   Pirat World Cup 2012   During measurement one boat was found not coplying with class rules (weight & position of the jib stay), the sailor made no effort to add weight and to fix the position of the stay. After two days of Sailing the RC protested against the boat and therefore he was DSQ in all races. He retired from the regatta. At the awards ceremony the main sponsor of the event bought the boat from the German sailors that won the regatta and gave it as a gift to the sailing academy of the host club. The PRO invited the memebers of the PC to assist him in running the races. The Pirat Class is family oriented and very friendly.   Published 2012-2-15   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   2012-1-6   2012 Australian Youth Championship   It was noted that there were congestions (damage & injury) due to high speed classes sailing in a same area and using same mark with different course configuration.   Published 2012-5-17   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   2011-12-3   South American Beach Games   Appendix P was invoked by the SIs, but the boats provided by the OA (28' Coast Guard Patrol boats) were not suitable for said application. The Race Signal Flags used by the RC were too small or out of proportion and often in the wrong color (papa flag looked black instead of blue) and whiskey (to signal windward-leeward courses for the snipes as per class rules) looked like a blue flag from the distance. An OCS request for redress was granted because the blue cross of the X-Ray flag was so thin that, from the middle of the line, the flag appeared to be a plain white flag instead of an individual recall flag. Other than that, four classes (laser full rig, laser radial, snipes men and snipes women) sailed in a beautiful venue and sailing conditions.   Published 2012-2-26   2011-12-3   ISAF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS   Case RRS 69 Facts Found As the first two boats in Finn Race 9 rounded the gate for the second beat and headed towards the shore, a media boat followed close to leeward of the leader. This caused wash for GBR 3, who attempted to wave the media boat off. When the leaders passed through the gate and headed towards the finishing line, the same media boat followed the leader to the finishing line leaving a large wake, which again affected GBR 3's race. The media boat crossed the finishing line and then stopped in front of GBR 3 after GBR 3 finished. As GBR 3 came alongside, the skipper jumped aboard the media boat. The skipper grabbed and shook the boat driver, shouting 'You have no respect!' He then walked towards another member of the media boat's crew, but made no contact with him. He then jumped into the water, swam to his boat and sailed away. On coming ashore, the skipper of GBR 3 wrote a letter of apology and delivered it to the media boat driver. The media boat driver accepted that apology and apologised in a letter for disturbance during the race. Conclusion The action of jumping on a media boat with anger and grabbing the driver constitutes physical aggression. Such behaviour is never an acceptable response. Such behaviour not only constitutes a gross breach of good manners but also, coming from a top athlete at a world championship, brings the sport of sailing into disrepute. However, the repeated nature of the media boats interference over multiple legs is a mitigating circumstance, as is the prompt and unsolicited written apology given to the boat driver. Decision GBR 3 is to be scored DGM (disqualification non-excludable for gross misconduct) for Races 9 and 10. 2011 ISAF World Championships were split into 2 weeks. Loss in the concept of grouped World Championship, difficulties to reset between the 2 weeks.   Published 2012-3-27   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