Guest Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 It looks like we will know tomorrow if Telefonica will suffer any penalties for supposedly using an extra sail on leg four. The international jury have confirmed their scheduled protest hearing involving Team Telefónica will take place in Itajaí on Wednesday, April 18 at 1800 local time (2100 UTC). The independent body of rules experts chaired by ISAF international judge Bernard Bonneau scheduled the hearing -- which concerns an alleged breach of 5.2.2 of the notice of race -- after receiving a report from the head of the race’s measurement group over the sails carried by Telefónica during Leg 4 from Sanya to Auckland. Under race rules, each boat is required to carry on board one storm trysail, one storm jib and one heavy weather jib, plus a maximum of seven other sails, made up of a maximum of one mainsail, two headsails, three spinnakers and one staysail. Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 The verdict will be delivered sometime in the early hours of Friday morning. Link to post Share on other sites
Clipper 343 Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 Protest Dismissed. Findings here http://www.sailinganarchy.com/fringe/20 ... fonica.pdf Link to post Share on other sites
ScottiE 174 Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 fair 'nuff! Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 fair 'nuff! Camper dont like the decision though. http://etnzblog.com/#!2012/04/camper-to ... y-decision Link to post Share on other sites
rigger 47 Posted April 20, 2012 Share Posted April 20, 2012 based on the statement from camper the officials stuffed up and it is not fair 'nuff! on all other competitors Link to post Share on other sites
ScottiE 174 Posted April 21, 2012 Share Posted April 21, 2012 Don't agree - its their 'tough sh*t' as far as I'm concerned. T/F declared the sail before sailing and had it signed off by the measurer. To retrospectively change that decision and then penalise them is just ridiculous. T/F would argue that they wouldn't have taken the sail if the interpretation was different. To suggest there is redress doesn't work either - you can't determine by how much, if at all, they were advantaged and Camper couldn't have sailed any faster if T/F didn't carry it (they of course would have sailed the leg much faster if they had'nt cocked up their navigation so badly which is the real reason T/F beat them!). But like I always say 'if you don't ask you don't get' so good luck to them. Link to post Share on other sites
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