61 REDRESS
61.1 Requesting or Considering Redress
(a) A boat may request redress.
(b) The race committee or the technical committee may request redress for a
boat.
(c) The protest committee may call a hearing to consider redress for a boat.
61.2 Requests for Redress
(a) A request for redress shall be in writing and identify the reason for making
it.
(b) A request shall be delivered to the race office (or by such other method
as stated in the sailing instructions):
(1) if it is based on an incident in the racing area, within the protest time
limit or two hours after the incident (whichever is later),(2) if it is based
on a protest committee decision on the last scheduled day of racing, no later
than 30 minutes after the decision was posted, or
(3) for all other requests, as soon as reasonably possible after the relevant
information is available.
However, the protest committee shall extend the time if there is good reason
to do so.
61.3 Invalid Requests
A request for redress is invalid if it does not comply with rule 61.2.
61.4 Redress Decisions
(a) The protest committee shall conduct a hearing as required by rule 63 to
decide whether to grant redress.
(b) A boat is entitled to redress if her score or place in a race or series
has been made, or may be made, significantly worse through no fault of her own
by
(1) an improper action or improper omission of a committee or the organizing
authority, but not by a protest committee decision when the boat was a party
to the hearing,
(2) injury or physical damage because of the action of a boat that was breaking
a rule of Part 2 and took an appropriate penalty or was penalized,
(3) injury or physical damage because of the action of a vessel not racing that
was required to keep clear or is determined to be at fault under the IRPCAS
or a government right-of-way rule,
(4) giving help (except to herself or her crew) in compliance with rule 1.1,
or
(5) an action of another boat, or a crew member or support person of that boat,
that resulted in a penalty under rule 2 or a penalty or warning under rule 69.
(c) If a boat is entitled to redress, the protest committee shall make as
fair an arrangement as possible for all boats affected, whether or not they
asked for redress. This may be to adjust the scoring (see rule A9 for examples)
or finishing times of boats, to abandon the race, to let the results stand or
to make some other arrangement.
(d) If there is doubt about the facts or probable results of any arrangement
for the race or series, especially before abandoning the race, the protest committee
shall take evidence from appropriate sources.