Just so everyone understands the situation of the hole in the boat, as I was told, that boat was on Port Tack and was hit by the Starboard Tack boat. I thought there was something in the rules that says you are to avoid a collision at all costs? So, without being there, did the starboard tack boat try to avoid them but "missed", did they hail Starboard, get told to Hold Course and hit them? Was it going upwind or down?

The port tack boat (with the hole) did two 360 turns, then continued racing, with that hole, but was taking on water and retired, then was DSQ'd when the extent of the "substantial damage" was seen, at least that's the way I heard it, but again, I was not there. Wether they finished the race in the bottom 3 or retired or were DSQ'd is irrelevent, because they would be in B fleet next race anyway. But, if the incident happened say near the finish line, and they did circles and might have finished in the top 7, then they wouldn't have been dropped. Either way, they are back in A fleet with the most number of 1st. place finishes (3) of all the boats.

So, in that case, what about the starboard tack boat? Is he off clean after putting a hole in another boat?