Same race, different courses published.

The race committee can, if it wishes, abandon the race under rule 32.1(d), for reason affecting the fairness of the competition.

The race committee can NOT adjust the times or places it has recorded for boats that have finished. As Jim says only the protest committee can do that, and then, only if it concludes that boats are entitled to redress. And in a redress hearing the protest committee can't adjust a boats place or time so as to worsen her score, because that would be to penalise her without a protest, contrary to rule 63.1.

So prolly the best course is for the race committee to go on the front foot and request redress for all boats that finished.

Assuming that everyone agrees about who sailed the short course and who sailed the long one, your solution of scoring places 1, 2, 3 ... for each short and long course would be a good one. The rationale as you described is that each set of competitors has had a fair race among themselves.

Given that you've got finishing places and times, I don't think it's a good idea to go back to mark rounding or engage in too much mathematactics.


Edited by Brass - 05 May 22 at 1:40pm

My club publishes set courses for the club racing. They are published online and in the club’s  annual handbook. The only reference to the courses in the SIs refers to ‘standard course cards’. Unfortunately an administrative error has occurred and one of the courses is different online when compared to the handbook. We discovered this half way round the course last night when half the fleet sailed off to a different mark!