61 Redress

61.1 Requesting or Considering Redress

A boat may ask for redress. The race or technical committee may ask for redress for a boat, and the protest committee may call a redress hearing on its own initiative.

61.2 Requests for Redress

In writing, saying why. For an incident in the racing area, deliver it within the protest time limit or two hours after the incident, whichever is later. For a protest committee decision made on the last scheduled day, within 30 minutes of the decision being posted. For anything else, as soon as reasonably possible after you have the information (typically when results are posted). No red flag or hail is needed. The protest committee must extend the time when there is good reason.

61.3 Invalid Requests

A request that does not meet 61.2 is invalid.

61.4 Redress Decisions

A boat is entitled to redress when her score or place in a race or series has been, or may be, made significantly worse through no fault of her own by:

• an improper action or omission of a committee or the organizing authority (but not a protest committee decision in a hearing where she was a party);
• injury or physical damage caused by a boat breaking a Part 2 rule that took a penalty or was penalized;
• injury or physical damage caused by a vessel not racing that was required to keep clear or was at fault under the collision regulations;
• giving help to someone else in danger, under rule 1.1;
• a rule 2 penalty or a rule 69 penalty or warning against another boat, her crew or her support person.

When redress is due, the committee makes as fair an arrangement as possible for every boat affected, not only the one that asked. It may adjust scores or finishing times, abandon the race, let results stand, or do something else. rule A9 gives the usual scoring methods.