Originally Posted by brucat
The next step is for the PRO to approach the sailor, explain the situation and ask him to retire. Again, it would never get this far with a good PRO, unless the PRO knows he has to do it (no competitors were witnesses) AND has a rock-solid case, a combination which is actually pretty rare.

I had this happen at a junior event this past summer. A guy hit the mark, didn't do his turn, I got a call from the mark boat saying they got it on video. Approached the competitor at the end of the day and after less than 5 minutes of discussion about "the right thing to do", he RAF'd.

Mike's right though. 99% of the time, unless the mark is assaulted by the competitor, you're not in a good position to see it. Especially if the "touch" is a graze.