IRR allow the Sailing Instruction Rule Change?

[Lookout]

I am wondering if allowing a Committee Boat the power to End a Race and DNF unfinished boats even though some boats have finished and are scored.

The new rule also allows boats to time their own finishes after the committee boat has left the lake. I see liability issue for the club as a racer are now compelled to stay out and finish a race without the protection of the committee boat.

The committee boat can also abandon a race as per usual.

What are your thoughts.

 

[Stu Jackson]

My thought is that you explained your conditions very, very well in your last post and we think we might have answered it. Starting a new post without the "history" is kinda counterproductive to your basic issue that the "old f*rts" on the RC have basically screwed you. Many folks "just tuning in" may have missed your earlier explanations.

 

[Jackdaw]

RRS #32 ALLOWS a RC to abandon ANY race. If boats have finished it does however ask the RC to factor the effect on standings. To abandon with out good cause us just wrong.

I can think of several times when this might make sense, it it almost always has to do with a race with a very wide range of boat ratings. Imagine a J/70 sailing against some Catalina 22s. If the J finishes just before the breeze totally dies, leaving the whole fleet of 22s stalled, the RC in good faith could abandon the race.

 

[Lookout]

I know I was skewed in the protest, oh well they did learn some of the rules.
This is a new rule was created after Boat G redress to have our score changed.
I am wondering from an club On the Water Insurance perspective does a rule allowing the C B to leave the lake and self score is insurable? It seems to me to be a bad idea from a risk management perspective.