When is the last time there was a protest hearing? I don’t even carry a red flag—for some reason I thought they were waived in HH. Guess I should find one…?
But in any case I thought marks were skipper-enforced; if you mess up then you go back or withdraw. Reminds me of that out-and-back race last year where roughly half the fleet (including me) rounded the turning mark on the wrong side—most folks didn’t realize until it was too late to go back. IIRC, despite the fact that the error conveyed zero advantage everyone who messed up just withdrew when they found out, some of the withdrawals were pretty late and happened the next day.
It might be worth adding a “if there is contact, you can re-round the mark as a penalty” clause to the HH rules.
On Tue, Jul 21, 2026 at 12:30 PM 'Roger Becker' via Holmes Hole Sailors <holmes-hole-sailors@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Ahoy!
As more information has filtered in to HHSA Race Scoring Headquarters here on Chappaquiddick, I've learned that the Results published on Sunday need to be edited to reflect that the boats Tamu and Bandit did not observe Can 23a at East Chop. That buoy, when not designated as a MARK at the end of a leg of the race, needs to be kept on it's proper hand. This rule was established years ago as larger boats were concerned that the smaller boats could gain advantage by holding a course close in shore where a deeper draft boat could not safely go. In Sunday's race, the two boats cut that corner as they worked their way windward towards the West Chop Turning Mark, R2 Bell after rounding G23 Gong. Naturally, when rounding N4 and C23a as marks for the course, boats are free to take as much or a little room as they want or need. This is standard for our "triangle Harbor races" using course 1, 1R and 0 and 0R. So, to summarize, for some courses, the marks need to be observed as navigation buoys while on a leg that is headed to a different buoy or Mark, while on other legs of the race, as the buoys are destinations of a particular leg, the navigation purpose of the buoy is disregarded.
Additionally I have learned that Bliss did indeed hit Can 23a and withdrew with no injury to the crew.
I've attached the edited results, we'll worry about season standings after a couple more races.
All the best, Roger.--
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