Kaos nicely summarizes the consequences of cat sailor's overwhelming resistance to carrying through with protests .

Not only do sailors continually make the same errors... but clearly when the boats go crunch... the feelings of bad sportsmanship and irresponsibility persist for much longer then the boat repair or rule confusion lasted.
(see this EMSA example... and my fleet... we had two A cats go crunch in June and I don't think either sailor has raced the rest of the year... boats are all back together long ago.)

I know crewing on big boats on beer can wed's how amped up you can get over a dispute and then your complete non interest in following through on the protest when you hit the dock ... AND I also know that XXX was and is an idiot and will be wrong forever more.
I won't have a mechanism to resolve the issue either. but even though i can't remember the details... I KNOW that XXX can't be trusted.
Not good!

The PC hearing will resolve the rules dispute. AND a fair process will go along way to addressing the responsibility and sportsmanship issues that underlie the dispute.

I stand by my position that the PC must explicitly focus on this responsibility and sportsmanship stuff (and the rules admin) because the effect on the fleet will be corrosive in the end.