The protest committee shall conduct a hearing as required by
rule 63 to decide whether to grant redress.
A boat is entitled to redress if her score or place in a race or
series has been made, or may be made, significantly worse
through no fault of her own by
an improper action or improper omission of a
committee
or the organizing authority, but not by a protest
committee decision when the boat was a party to the
hearing,
injury or physical damage because of the action of a boat
that was breaking a rule of
Part 2 and took an appropriate
penalty or was penalized,
injury or physical damage because of the action of a
vessel not
racing that was required to keep clear or is
determined to be at fault under the IRPCAS or a
government right-of-way rule,
giving help (except to herself or her crew) in compliance
with
rule 1.1, or
an action of another boat, or a crew member or
support person
of that boat, that resulted in a penalty under
rule 2
or a penalty or warning under
rule 69.
If a boat is entitled to redress, the protest committee shall make
as fair an arrangement as possible for all boats affected,
whether or not they asked for redress. This may be to adjust the
scoring (see
rule A9
for examples) or finishing times of boats,
to
abandon
the race, to let the results stand or to make some
other arrangement.
If there is doubt about the facts or probable results of any
arrangement for the race or series, especially before
abandoning
the race, the protest committee shall take evidence
from appropriate sources.