----- Original Message -----

From: Ralph Tingle

To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Wednesday, September 07, 2005 10:41 PM

Subject: [sailwave] Z Flag Penalty

Martin wrote

 

"If a boat brakes the RRS 30.2, and there is a general recall, and the boat breakes 30.2 again; how do you display a 40% (but not more than DNF) penalty?"

 

Rule 30.2  does not limit the penalty to one per start sequence.

A boat which puts its bow over the line within 1 minute is penalised 20%, the second time an additional 20%, third time ...... until the the boat's score reaches the same as DNF etc.

 

To score this, I would set up scoring codes of ZFP (20%), ZFP2 (40%), ZFP3 etc 

It may even be worthwhile using a code of ZFP40, ZFP60 to denote more than one penalty

 

 

Regards

Ralph