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(andrew m. boardman) wrote:

Stephen Page wrote:
In my world, if someone withdraws a protest, everyone draws a sigh of
relief and goes home early. [...]

That's mostly what my world is like too, but fleets vary a lot. (The
PHRF crew that I sail with occasionally talks about five-year-old
protests with a lot of emotion!)

There must be a deeper reason that is not hitting the surface, surely?

Assuming it's all done with at this point, I'd be curious to hear more
about the circumstances and results if it can be aired here. (Roy?)

I honestly don't know more about the circumstances than I did when I made
my original post.

I collected the info I got here, cited the appropriate passages from the
Judges Manual, and sent an email to the guy organizing the protest
committee (we don't have a standing PC, but one of the RC members is in
charge of assembling PCs as needed to handle protests that get submitted).
His response was to thank me for my input and he told me that they were
allowing the protest to be dropped. I'm not sure if that was his decision
or if a PC was actually put together and the PC made that decision, but I
believe it was the latter.

Man, this newsgroup really has withered away, hasn't it? A few years ago,
this would have attracted 10 posts a day for a week. Where has everybody
gone? Over to blogs and Sailing Anarchy?