For a fun project and challenge for myself I'm trying to build a program to score regattas. Naturally I'm reviewing Appendix A in quite some detail.
RSS
90.3(b) caught my attention. Non-excludable scores are something I obviously need to account for but I know Sailing Instructions can override many items in the RRS. Can Sailing Instructions for an event override 90.3(b) and permit the exclusion of otherwise non-excludable scores? I couldn't find anything definitive in Appendix
J on this matter.
First to make sure that we are on the same rules version, I am reading the 2021-2014 version since you are going to be using your program in a matter of 2 months.
Rule 86.1 tell us what can and cannot be changed. 86.1(b) lists rules that cannot be changed by the SI's. Included in the list are rules in 86.1(a). 90.3 Scoring is in Part 7, which is one that cannot be changed by SI.
That could make your scoring program simpler.
Kim
What they can't do is change the following rules that result in DNE: rule 2 and rule 69 (rule 86.1(a)).
The only remaining rule that makes a score non-excludable is rule 30.4 (BFD): this rule is changeable if you wish, but given the presence of U Flag and other starting penalties, why would you bother.