Races for radio-controlled boats shall be sailed under The Racing Rules of Sailing as changed by this appendix.
E1 TERMINOLOGY
'Boat' means a boat that is radio-controlled
by a competitor who is not on board. For 'race' used as a noun outside this
appendix read 'heat'. Within this appendix, a race consists of one or more
heats, and is completed when the last heat in the race is finished. 'Event'
means one or more races. 'Series' means a specified number of races or
events.
E2 PART 1 FUNDAMENTAL RULES
E2.1 Personal
Buoyancy
Add to rule 1.2: 'When on board a rescue vessel, each competitor
shall be responsible for wearing personal buoyancy adequate for the
conditions.'
E2.2 Aerials
Transmitter aerial extremities shall be adequately
protected.
E3 PART 2 WHEN BOATS MEET
In rule 18, change
'two-length zone' to 'four-length zone' and in the definition
Two-Length Zone change 'two' to 'four'.
E4 PART 3 CONDUCT OF A RACE
E4.1 Race Observers
The race committee may appoint race observers, who may be competitors. They
shall hail and repeat the identity of the boats in an incident involving
contact between boats or between a boat and a mark. Observers shall report all
unresolved incidents to the race committee at the end of the heat.
E4.2 Course Board
Rule M2.1(3) is deleted. A course board showing
the course and the limits of the control area shall be located next to or
within the control area so as to be clearly visible to competitors
racing.
E4.3 Control Area
Competitors racing and race observers shall remain in the designated
control area while a heat is in progress, except that competitors may be
briefly absent to perform functions permitted in rule E4.4. Competitors not
racing shall remain outside the control area except when offering assistance
under rule E5.2 or when acting as race observers.
E4.4 Launching and Re-launching
Rule
45 is changed to (a) Boats
scheduled to race in a heat may be launched, taken ashore or re-launched at any
time during the heat except between the preparatory and starting signals. (b)
While ashore or at the water's edge, boats may be adjusted, drained of water or
repaired; have their sails changed or reefed; have entangled objects removed;
or have batteries changed.
E4.5 Non-applicable Rules
Rules
25,
26,
30 and
33 do not apply.
E4.6 Audible Starting Signals
Audible signals for starting a heat
shall be at one-minute intervals and shall be a warning signal, a preparatory
signal and a starting signal. During the minute before the starting signal,
verbal signals shall be made at ten-second intervals, and during the final ten
seconds at one-second intervals. The start shall be at the beginning of the
starting signal.
E4.7 Other Race Committee Actions
Rules
27 and
32 are changed in that the race
committee shall not postpone or
abandon a race before or after the
start because of
(a) foul weather, except for thunderstorms, or
(b)
insufficient wind.
E4.8 Starting and Finishing Lines
The starting and finishing lines
shall be tangential to, and on the course side of, the starting and finishing
marks.
E4.9 Individual Recall
Rule
29.2 is changed. Delete all
after 'the race committee shall promptly' and insert 'twice hail ³Recall,
boat numbers . . .².'
E4.10 General Recall
Rule
29.3 is changed. Delete all
after 'the race committee may' and substitute: 'twice hail ³General
recall².' The preparatory signal for a new start shall be made at least
one minute after the recalled start.
E4.11 Time to Repair
Unless she has been disqualified under rule
14, a boat that has sustained
damage while having right of way shall be given reasonable time, but not more
than 30 minutes, to effect repairs before her next heat.
E5 PART 4 OTHER REQUIREMENTS WHEN RACING
E5.1 Rules
43,
46,
47,
48,
49,
50,
52 and
54 do not apply.
E5.2 Outside Help
Rule 41 is changed to:
(a) A boat that has
gone ashore or aground or become entangled with another boat or object may be
freed and relaunched with outside help to the extent permitted in rule E4.4.
(b) Other actions permitted in rule E4.4 may be performed by outside
help.
(c) A competitor shall not give tactical or strategic advice to a
competitor who is racing.
E5.3 Penalties for Breaking a Rule of Part 2, E4 or E5
(a)
Throughout rule 44 the penalty shall be one 360° turn, including one tack
and one gybe, and rule 44.3 is deleted.
(b) The race committee or protest
committee may protest a boat whose competitor breaks rule E4.3, E4.4 or
E5.2(c). If the protest committee decides that a rule was broken, it may either
exclude the boat from the next race or disqualify her from the previous race.
E5.4 Ballast
Rule 51 is changed to:
During an event and unless
class rules conflict,
(a) ballast shall not be shifted, shipped, or
un-shipped;
(b) except for replacements of similar weight and position, no
control equipment shall be shifted, shipped or un-shipped;
(c) the position
of counterweights may be adjusted;
(d) bilge water shall not be used to
trim the boat and may be removed at any time.
E5.5 Radio
Competitors' radio transmissions shall not interfere
with the radio reception of other boats.
E5.6 Boat out of Radio Control
A competitor who loses radio control
of a boat shall promptly hail and repeat 'Out of control' and the boat's sail
number. A boat out of control shall retire and shall be considered an
obstruction.
E6 PROTESTS, HEARINGS, MISCONDUCT AND APPEALS
E6.1
Protests
Add to rule 60.1: 'except that a
protest shall be made only by a boat
scheduled to race in the heat in which
the incident occurred.' Add to rules
60.2(a) and
60.3(a): 'provided that during
a heat, the incident is observed by a member of the race committee or protest
committee within the control area.'
E6.2 Protest Requirements
Rule
61.1(a) is changed to: 'A boat
intending to protest another boat because of an incident that occurs in the
racing area shall twice hail ³Protest² and the other boat's sail
number.'
E6.3 Protest Time Limit
Rule
61.3 is changed. For 'two
hours' read '15 minutes.' Add: 'A protestor intending to submit a
protest shall inform the race
committee within five minutes of the end of the relevant heat.'
E6.4 Accepting Responsibility
A boat that acknowledges breaking a
rule of Part 2, 3 or 4 before a hearing may retire from the relevant heat
without further penalty.
E6.5 Redress
(a) Add to rule 62.1:
(e) radio interference,
or
(f) an entanglement with a boat required to
keep clear or give
room.
(b) Rule
62.2 is changed to: 'The
request shall be made in writing within the time limit of rule E6.3. No protest
flag is required.'
E6.6 Rule 63.3 is changed. Delete 'on board' and substitute 'within the control area'.
E6.7 Taking Evidence and Finding Facts
Add to rule
63.6: 'Evidence about an
alleged breach of a rule of Part 2, 3 or 4 shall be accepted only from a
witness who was within the control area at the time of the alleged incident.'
E6.8 Reopening a Hearing
Rule
66 is changed; for '24 hours'
read 'five minutes'.
E6.9 Identification on Sails
Rule
77 is changed to: 'An
International Class boat shall comply with the requirements of the Sail
Identification Mark Rules of the Radio Sailing Division of the ISAF.'