Q&a De Regatas

ISAF Racing Rules Question and Answer Service Q&A 2009-031 Published: 23 June 2009 Situation: At the end of a regatta, after the prize giving, the RO discover that the tie breaking system he used wasthe wrong one and some tie breaks were wrong, including the silver and bronze which should have been reversed. Al final de una regata, despues de la entrega de premios, el OR descubre que el sistemaque ha usado para deshacer los empates no era el correcto y que algunos desempates estan equivocados, incluyendo la plata y el bronce que se deberian cambiar. Question 1: Is the RO allowed to correctthe results? Puede el OR corregir los resultados? Answer 1 Rule 90.3 (a) places the responsibility for scoring on the race committee as a whole. If the race officer becomes aware of a mistake, he mustrefer the matter to the race committee. The race committee may correct any mistake for which it was responsible. In doing so, it is scoring the boats as they should have been scored had the racecommittee not made an error so that action is not one that would worsen a boat's score as provided in A5. La regla 90.3(a) encarga la responsabilidad de las clasificaciones al comite de regatas alcompleto. Si el oficial de regata se da cuenta de un error, debe someter la cuestion al comité de regatas. El comité de regatas puede corregir cualquier error del que sea responsable. Al hacer esto,clasifica a los barcos como debieran haber sido clasificados si el comité de regatas no hubiera cometido un error, por lo que tal accion no consiste en empeorar la puntuacion de un barco como contempla A5.Question 2: If the answer to question 1 is affirmative, then how long after the end of the regatta? Si la respuesta a la pregunta 1 es afirmativa, cuanto tiempo despues del final de la regata?Answer 2 There is no time limit but it will depend. The time elapsed since the end of the regatta is only one factor. If the event was being used as selection for another event that has not yet happened,...