OBXGator,
That Worrell 1000 ruling was a bandage to fix a unique problem, save the race, and save boats and sailors. In that case it was the race organizer who decreed that no more boats would be allowed to try to leave the beach at Jensen and told them to trailer to the next stop. The only question was how much of a penalty to give them, to be fair to the five boats that sailed the leg.

It's an entirely different situation when a team fails to complete a leg in time or pulls out during the leg for whatever reason.