Umpiring and judging: it is also a question of philosophy, not just words...

Thank you to Sten Morh and Jorn Richter for supporting our position.
Obviously as expert in match racing (former competitor, coach for French Team and International Umpire) I cannot understand nor support the Jury's decision.

As Sten said umpires outsmarted themselves. In my opinion the job for umpires and judges is not to play with the rules as they did at Monsoon.
Umpires and judges are a guarantee for the rules and, in my opinion the spirit of the rules, to be respected by competitor. Umpires have to favour the game, not to kill it.

In that case they reverse a decision from the race committee in favour of a very powerfull skipper, very well known, experienced and also organiser of the event...

Even if the rule is not clear enough, the spirit of the rule is clear (see call UMP 18).
In addition, it is a pity that such an important decision, deciding more or less a world title, was taken by an International Jury with 3 judges from Australia (that is incorrect regarding ISAF rules even if these judges are not from the same nation as one of the boat in the protest).

We hope the rule will be shortly clarified, but it not only a matter of rules, it is also a matter of how you consider your job as judge.

I personnaly disagree with the way the Jury at Monsoon Cup decided that case.