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After all comments and review of rules, I agree with White Hawk and Fortitude comments, though I am curious about Matt’s references to some calls by judges that ruled differently. I’m sorry not to have understood the rules on this situation and wonder if there is a way we can adjust the reported results, or does that run afoul of requirements for a timely protest?
Despite efforts to clarify the rules, I find the mark room rules and the situation involving finishing enough different from mark roundings to cause some confusion for me and apparently also a few judges. For roundings the space and course required is much more constrained than for a finish, since for the vast majority of the finish line and for most finishing courses sailed, the marks at the end and their zones are not involved. I surely wish I had stayed out of the zone. Perhaps before the RRS are revised again, we could clarify this in our next year’s SIs and also suggest to Dave Perry and others some clarification on this issue.