Team Race - CALL M 01 

Rule 60.1 Right to Protest and Request Redress
Rule 61.1(c) Protesting a Boat that is not a Party to a Protest
Rule D2.2(b) Umpired Races: Signalling the Decision

Question 1
A member of one team witnesses contact between opposing team-mates and she protests. What should the call be?

Answer 1
A boat is entitled to protest under rule 60.1 if she sees an incident, and in nonumpired races the protest committee is entitled to bring a protest against a boat that was involved in the incident but is not a party to the hearing. In the same way, when races are umpired, D2.2(b) allows an umpire to penalize one or more boats after a protest, whether or not they were the boat identified in the initial protest. In this case one of the two boats has either failed to keep clear or failed to give room. Penalize the boat that has broken a rule.

Question 2
Boat A makes contact with boat X and protests her. The umpire judges that a third boat B is at fault and has broken a rule. What should the call be?

Answer 2
Penalize boat B.

There is no requirement on the protesting boat to identify correctly the boat that has broken a rule. Provided the protest is correctly made, the umpire will judge the incident, and penalize any boat(s) that have broken a rule.