• Protest Schedule Question
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  Zev Fort Wed 06:12
• US Sailing Hearing Decision Forms
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  John Porter Tue 19:39
• New Scoring Abbreviations and Case Revisions
  12 Comments
  Mark Townsend Tue 18:47
• Consequences if club runs a race when SI states it should be cancelled.
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  John Anderson Tue 07:03
• Start Line as (Temporary?) Obstruction
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  Eric Saenger Mon 10:19

• Consequences if club runs a race when SI states it should be cancelled.
  "The Gale Warning is a Risk Statement not a Forecast and those who take that Risk are forewarned! " => A warning is essentially a statement of risk, designed to alert individuals to potential dangers or negative consequences associated with a specific situation, activity, or product. For a BOM Gale wind warning issued 18 hours in advance, and up to 42 hours in advance in some cases, updated every 6 hours. It essentially says that the BOM forecast models predict that Gale strength winds are likely to occur somewhere in the area, sometime during the period to which the warning applies. Despite the imprecision in the forecast, the warning is issued for the entire area and time period. Like all risk assessments, severity of consequences trumps likelihood.
  John Anderson Yesterday 21:41
• US Sailing Hearing Decision Forms
  Benjamin, 
  
  Regarding your last 2 points, here is the reasoning:
  1. I like to ask the protestor to sit to my left and the protestee to sit to my right. That way, I have the name on the form aligned visually to the party. It helps me keep the boats and names straight when scribing. It does eat up some real estate, but at least for me, it gives me a better shot at doing the best job in the hearing. It also lets you see all relevant info looking at one page. Obviously this is a matter of preference. 
  2. In the US we track judge activities. We track chairperson and a software enhancement for the future is hoping to track scribe, procedural, and when needed, technical (manages online hearing tech) judges. When we pull this off in our software, logging it on forms will allow people to go back and document their past activities with written records. 
  John Porter Yesterday 19:57
• Protest Schedule Question
  Matt, I'll bet the  NOR/SI does not require a hearing schedule to be posted by a certain time.
  
  That was the condition in the OP, and the cause of the problem, whatever it may be.
  John Allan Wed 21:25
• New Scoring Abbreviations and Case Revisions
  All Participating Raceboats In Line (APRIL)
  Christian Hartmann Wed 08:22
• Start Line as (Temporary?) Obstruction
  What we do with a lot of success.  Is we run a L/W Course with the Leeward mark as a gate.  That way the Start line is also the leeward gate.  The Start is into the wind around the windward mark and down through the leeward gate, and either a port rounding on the committee boat end or a starboard rounding on the pin end.  Finished by either 2 or 3 laps with a downwind finish through the same Leeward gate.  It has given us many options for ease of setting up, and sailors have some options sailing the race on wich end they want to race the leeward gate.  It also simplifies the SI.
  Anthony Howes Tue 15:40

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