Hi,
working with the Laser Europeans and found that ILCA is using a little bit odd penalty system:
Code ARB
20 ARBITRATION SYSTEM
20.1 As an alternative to a complete protest hearing by the jury for an alleged breach of a rule of Part 2, competitors may be given the choice of using an arbitration system. A condition for this is that the parties present at the time scheduled for the hearing agree to accept the decision of the arbitrators. The arbitration system changes rules 63 and 64.
20.2 The arbitrators will be two members of the jury. They will take the evidence of the parties and give their opinion as to any rule breaches. This opinion will be binding as a protest decision on the parties. However, the hearing may be reopened under rule 66. If a party to a hearing asks for a reopening, the penalty, if any, will be a DSQ or greater. If the arbitrators refer the case to the full jury, or the jury initiates a reopening, the penalty will be the penalty prescribed in instruction 20.3 or a greater penalty.
20.3 If the arbitrators penalise a boat, the penalty will be a scoring penalty of 30% (rounded up to the next whole number) of the number of entrants in the fleet. See rule 44.3(c).
20.4 If, at the time of offering the arbitration system to the parties, any of the parties refuse to accept the system, the protest will be heard by the full jury and the penalty score becomes DSQ or more (DNE).
Code PTS
Then we need another (similar) soring code -PTS, that would be aditional points (8, 10, 20 or something else) but not more than the biggest startgroup.
I used The RDG setup for now but we have to have in mind the bigges startgroup and if anyone above has got a DSQ... for correcting the points.
Cheers
Anders