Matt .. I was just supporting Ben in that single assertion. 

Thanks for sharing Michael. 

There is a cool (though still quite glitchy) little app that gives some of this info from the sailor's side called Beer Can Racing.  

I use it to give me my wind angles before the start in point-to-point races .. which helps me prepare the crew for points-of-sail, douse/hoist sides, etc. 

The reason I point you to this is that what's good for the goose is good for the gander.   Maybe a sailor-view of a subset would be nice showing their boat's info to help boats prepare and plan their race. 

Ang

Richard, thank you for your open minded response, but i agree with Sue that relaxing the promptness of the hail and RRS 44 penalty requirements would be undesirable.

One of the purposes of the suggestion was to reinforce the requirements for prompt hail and prompt response.

If you let go of those requirements you will get into all sorts of disputes about:

AIUI the purpose of making the respondent (not a word in this RRS) field mandatory is that the system automatically messages that entity that they are the subject of a hearing.  Naming a boat there will make it appear that that boat has been protested.

Wouldn't a better solution for requests fo  redress be to either omit the respondent field or make it non mandatory, and message the race committee that a request has been received in every case?

Thank you for everything that you do.