Scoring

1. The race committee shall score a race or series as provided in Appendix A unless the notice of race or sailing instructions specify some other system. A race shall be scored if it is not abandoned and if one boat sails the course and within the race time limit, if any, even if she retires after finishing or is disqualified.
2. When a scoring system provides for excluding one or more race scores, any score that is a Disqualification Not Excludable (DNE) shall be included in a boat’s series score.
3. When the race committee determines from its own records or observations that it has scored a boat incorrectly, it shall correct the error and make the corrected scores available to competitors.
4. The race committee shall implement scoring changes directed by the protest committee or national authority as a result of decisions made in accordance with the rules .
5. When so stated in the notice of race, notwithstanding the provisions of rules 90.3(a), (b), (c) and (d), there shall be no changes to race or series scores resulting from action, including the correction of errors, initiated more than 24 hours after the later of
   1. the protest time limit for the last race of the event;
   2. being informed of a protest committee decision after the last race of the event; or
   3. the results are published.
   However, in exception, changes to scores shall be made resulting from a decision under rule 6 , 69 or 71 . The notice of race may change ‘24 hours’ to a different time.