As I understand what happened with the J24 BFD redress requests, I believe the International Jury got things right in the end. I'm not a fan of the black flag, as it can lead to these sorts of problems. Take for example ISAF Q&A C001 (a.k.a. 2014-015). It describes a situation where a boat, despite doing nothing wrong, winds up disqualified -- with no possibility of redress (beyond DNS). I don't always agree with the ISAF Q&A writeups, but in this case I reach the same conclusions.

Regards,
Eric