OK, back to my original question, if something major breaks, worst case say they have to replace the entire wing, and they cannot make what ever the next scheduled race is, say the next day, do they "postpone" that race or does the broken team forfit that race?
Both of these boats are so new, and so huge, I expect one or both will experience some trouble during the regatta. So how will that be dealt with, time wise? Is Ernesto writing that rule too? It could come back to bite him if his boat breaks first.
In more "gentlemanly" times, the opponent would likely give the other some limited time to fix the problem.
I don't think that's very likely in this situation. Once the schedule is set, the way it's probably going to work this time is you either show up on time or you forfeit that race.
There is no backup wing. There are two backup soft rigs (maybe three if they've fixed the mast they broke right before they went to the wing).
