Team Holcim-PRB protest against 11th Hour Racing Team ruled invalid

The Ocean Race 2022-23 - 13 June 2023. IMOCA In-Port Race in The Hague. Team Holcim - PRB.
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UPDATE THURSDAY 0950 CEST: The World Sailing International Jury has ruled this protest is invalid... More to come.

On Wednesday 28 June, Team Holcim-PRB filed a protest against 11th Hour Racing Team, relating to the collision at the start of Leg 7 involving GUYOT environnement - Team Europe.

The protest cites Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS) 14 and 16.1.

RRS 14 reads, in part: “A boat shall avoid contact with another boat if reasonably possible. However, if a boat has right of way…and if she is complying with the other rules of Part 2, a right-of-way boat…need not act to avoid contact until it is clear that the other boat is not keeping clear.”

RRS 16.1 reads, in part: “When a boat acquires right of way or when a right-of-way boat alters course, she is required to give room for the other boat to keep clear. The other boat must promptly manoeuvre in a way which offers a reasonable expectation that she will keep clear.”

Andrés Pérez, the chairman of the World Sailing International Jury for The Ocean Race has scheduled a hearing for this protest at 0930 on Thursday 29 June, just ahead of the previously scheduled Request for Redress.