An error has just been noticed in Appendix E 6.3. The phrase about hailing promptly as required in R 60 was dropped.
This issue was not noticed in part because there are no change bars provided in the appendices, and as there was no request for the change, no one looked closely at it.
The wording was correct in the 2021-2024 edition, but as Part 5 was reworded and renumbered, the reference to R 60 in Appendix E6.3 needed to be updated to the new numbers.
IRSA has requested to World Sailing for a correction. In the interim, IRSA is recommending that the NOR/SI for any events have a rule change to correct the issue.
Here is what E6.3 says today.
E6.3 Informing the Protestee
Rule 60.2(a)(1) is changed to:
(1) If the protestor is a boat, she shall hail ‘(Her own sail number) protest (the sail number of the other boat)’.
This is what it should have said if correctly copied from the previous edition with just the rule number change.
E6.3 Informing the Protestee
Rule 60.2(a)(1) is changed to:
The protesting boat shall inform the other boat at the first reasonable opportunity. When her protest concerns an incident in the racing area, she shall hail ‘(Her own sail number) protest (the sail number of the other boat)’.
John
How is this not already handled by 60.2(b)?
E6.3 Informing the Protestee
The protesting boat shall inform the other boat at the first reasonable opportunity. When her protest concerns an incident in the racing area, she shall hail ‘(Her own sail number) protest (the sail number of the other boat)’.
I would suggest that E6.3 make the change to 60.2(a)(1) be:
(1) If the protestor is a boat, she shall hail '(Her own sail number) protest (the sail number of the other boat)' at the first reasonable opportunity.
As you said, the only thing actually missing between the old and new rule is the requirement to hail 'at the first reasonable opportunity'.
"A protesting boat shall inform the other boat at the first opportunity. This adds to E6.3."