Part 3
CONDUCT OF A RACE
signal. If a general recall is signalled or the race is abandoned after the starting signal, the race committee shall display her sail number before the next warning signal for that race, and if the race is restarted or resailed she shall not sail in it. If she does so, her disqualification shall not be excluded in calculating her series score. 31 TOUCHING A MARK While racing, a boat shall not touch a starting mark before starting, a mark that begins, bounds or ends the leg of the course on which she is sailing, or a finishing mark after finishing. 32 32.1 SHORTENING OR ABANDONING AFTER THE START After the starting signal, the race committee may shorten the course (display flag S with two sounds) or abandon the race (display flag N, N over H, or N over A, with three sounds), as appropriate, (a) (b) (c) (d) (e) because of an error in the starting procedure, because of foul weather, because of insufficient wind making it unlikely that any boat will finish within the time limit, because a mark is missing or out of position, or for any other reason directly affecting the safety or fairness of the competition,
or may shorten the course so that other scheduled races can be sailed. However, after one boat has sailed the course and finished within the time limit, if any, the race committee shall not abandon the race without considering the consequences for all boats in the race or series. 32.2 If the race committee signals a shortened course (displays flag S with two sounds), the finishing line shall be, (a) (b) (c) at a rounding mark, between the mark and a staff displaying flag S; at a line boats are required to cross at the end of each lap, that line; at a gate, between the gate marks.
The shortened course shall be signalled before the first boat crosses the finishing line.
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