I'm sorry for your operation Alberto and hope all goes well.

Agree to use solution number 1

See you soon I hope!
Ciao
Sandy

Hi Alberto

I am sorry but we are not available to sail the Small Final and so we are happy to accept that Wolves win this by walk over.

Well done for your performance in this tournament!

Best wishes
Sandy

WD Team Italia, who are too strong for us!

Good luck in the final

:) Sandy

OK I think we are good for 22;00 tonight.

Here are our maps:
Course 1 :
Course 2 : Qing F5 Port
Course 3 :
Course 4 : Auck F4 Star
Course 5 :
Course 6 : Wight F4 Port
Course 7 :

CU there
Sandy
(Internet volente)

I seem to have big connection problems tonight with my internet. Tomorrow (Wednesday) I will be in a different house where I hope it will be better.

I will email the team to see if anybody is able to sail tomorrow, Wenesday at 22:00

Hi Davide and Team Italia

I have been away on holiday and am justr back this morning.
I will contact the team and post again once I know their availablities

Sandy

Thank you Jean-Luc and I accept your point about the timing of the P, as it can take some time to discuss the issue in the team. Tiki's request was not very immediate also, for the same reason.

Thanks again for good company and I will be the first to say we made many mistakes and were very lucky, especially in the final leg of the last race, where a wind shift made the difference.

Best wishes for your next match
Sandy

Hi Jean-Luc

Firstly I too want to say 'well sailed' to UNT who were good company and fair skippers.
Then I need to say that although your offer to resail the race is appreciated, I prefer that we settle the matter by a decision about this incident and dont resail.

I am sorry but I dont have the same point of view of the penalty.

The Request by Tiki for cancel was at 2:06 on the race clock. Colibri typed 'p tik' at 2:50, which is 44 seconds after the request and in my opinion does not fulfil the SI which says in 9.1 '(c) A boat that intend to protest shall inform the other boat as soon as possible by writing 'P' in simulation chat'

After rounding the mark, Tiki gybes onto port. He has room to do this clear of Colibri if Colibri maintains the course he is on. But Colibri bears down and gives Tiki no opportunity to keep clear. By bearing down in this way, in my view he breaks rule 16.1.

So my opinion is that the pen cancel request was correct and that Colibri broke 16.1.

If you dont agree with this view, I will understand completely and will be content to go to the jury and let them decide.

For ease of review, I put a video from my replay on YouTube here .. YouTube Video
Sandy

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Thanks!
Replay sent

For the future, I think it might be an idea that the deadline for mediation should relate to the time of the match rather than the time that the results get submitted, which can be controlled by one team. Mostly the races are sailed in an evening and we are all exhausted, so maybe mediation by some time the following day would be better and then delay the protest deadline to 2 days, rather than the one day, as we have now.

Sandy