ISAF Racing Rules Question and Answer Service

At the ISAF Conference in November 2004, Council decided that the Q&A Service should continue under the joint responsibility of the Chairman of Racing Rules Committee and the Chairman of Race Officials Committee. Questions received relate to both rule interpretations and race official procedures or practices.

The Q&A Service Panel members are appointed on an annual basis.

For 2007, the members of the Q&A Panel are:

John Doerr (GBR) Chairman
Bjorn Anker-Moeller (DEN)
Mats Bjorklund (FIN)
Charley Cook (USA)
Carlos Gastelu (ARG)
Pat Healy (USA)
Marianne Middelthon (NOR)
Tony Mooney (AUS)
Takao Otani (JPN)
Bo Samuelsson (SWE)
Ana Maria Sanchez (ESP)
Richard Slater (AUS)
Richard Thompson (GBR)

Questions may be submitted to the Q&A Panel by any International Race Official or Member National Authority (preferably through an ISAF Race Official) via email to the ISAF Secretariat in Southampton or by post or fax. The panel may rephrase the question for clarity and may publish the answer on this website if the question is considered to be of general interest.

Each published Q&A will have an expiration date. Prior to expiration, each Q&A will be reviewed by the Q&A Panel and will be recommended to the RRC and ROC for submission as a Case, Call, or rule change; for inclusion in an applicable ISAF manual or other publication; or for extension or removal from the website.

Unlike the ISAF Cases, which are authoritative interpretations and explanations of the rules, these answers are solely to assist Race Officials in applying the rules consistently.

International Race Officials who would like to submit a question to the Q&A Service should do so via email to

Secretariat@isaf.co.uk, by fax to: +44 2380635789 or by post to:

ISAF Secretariat
Ariadne House
Town Quay
Southampton
Hampshire SO14 2AQ
United Kingdom

** Notice regarding Q&As published prior to 2005.

Each previously published Q&A that is still current has been revised to comply with the current rules and renumbered with the new format yy-nnn where 'yy' is the last 2 digits of the year in which the submission was received and 'nnn' is the sequential number of those published.

Please note that these revisions are in progress and will be completed as soon as possible.

For details of the procedure for submitting Q&As for consideration by the Q&A Panel click here.