The scary thing is that the sailors testimony was taken above that of the RC. The end result of our file for redress, to have the race reinstated, was that we were told that the RC couldn't prove that there was more than 5 knots of breeze.
In the Tornado event I talked about in an earlier post, there were four or five teams that insisted the wind was less than five, but we recorded the wind speeds constantly and kept a record on the score sheet.
Then they argued that we were taking wind speeds from the top of the RC boat's mast and winds speeds up there were much higher than on the water. Geesh! <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
In this case the RC won and the race stood. We ran the race according to the class' rules.., and suddenly they did not like their own rules.
Rick
