PART 5 Question 1
When there has been an action by a person that might be considered to be bad sportsmanship or misconduct, what actions might constitute misconduct?
Answer 1
Rule 69 covers all misconduct, and may range from a very minor misdemeanour to a very significant act of bad sportsmanship or bringing the sport into disrepute. The following actions should be considered as examples of misconduct, but they are not exclusive examples and this is not a definitive list:
1. Engaging in any unlawful activity (for example, theft, assault, criminal damage) 2. Engaging in any activity which may bring the sport into disrepute 3. Bullying, discriminatory behaviour and intimidation 4. Physical or threatened violence 5. Acting recklessly or in manner that does, or is likely to, cause damage or injury 6. Disobeying the reasonable instructions of event officials 7. Intentionally breaking a rule or inciting others to break a rule 8. Interference with another competitor’s equipment 9. Repeated breaches of a rule 10. Failing to act to prevent your boat or team breaking a rule when you are aware of that breach 11. Not telling the truth or the whole truth in a hearing
12. Other forms of cheating such as falsifying personal, class or measurement documents, entering a boat known not to measure, missing out a mark to gain places, etc.
13. Foul or abusive language that causes or may cause offence
14. Making abusive or disrespectful comments concerning race officials or their decisions (including via electronic means such as social media)
Question 2
When should a protest committee proceed under rule 2 and when should it proceed under rule 69? Answer 2
A boat may be protested for a breach of rule 2 and the protest committee is required to hear and decide the protest. To uphold a protest for an alleged breach of rule 2, the protest committee is required to clearly establish that a boat has not competed in compliance with recognized principles of sportsmanship and fair play. It follows that the action must directly involve the competition for a breach of rule 2 to be established.
A protest committee may protest a boat for a breach of rule 2, but it may decide that action under rule 69 is more appropriate, or in some circumstances action under both. Generally, an allegation of an action that directly affects the competition should be subject to protest under rule 2.
An action that is considered to be misconduct and that does not directly affect the competition should be subject to action under rule 69.
A protest and the subsequent hearing under any rule, including rule 2, may reveal conduct that the protest committee considers to be misconduct. In that case it may be appropriate for the protest committee to take separate action under rule 69.
Facts for Question 3
A boat is sailing upwind on port tack and attempts to cross ahead of a boat on starboard tack. The port-tack boat misjudges the cross and fails to keep clear.
Question 3
Has the port-tack boat intentionally broken a rule? Answer 3
No. Misjudgments such as this are common during a race and are not unfair sailing or misconduct. In order for this to be unfair sailing or misconduct, there must be evidence that the boat knew or should have known that she would not make the cross and attempted to do so anyway.
However, when the port-tack boat realizes that she has failed to keep clear, she has knowingly broken a rule and must take the appropriate penalty. Otherwise she has broken a recognized principle of sportsmanship (see Basic Principles, Sportsmanship and the Rules)1.
1 By implication, a breach of rule 2, Fair Sailing. RYA The Racing Rules Explained 223
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