Hey Todd, no worries. I actually agree with your clarified position. We always check on people, if they wave us on and there are other boats around, we keep going. If we're their only hope if the S hits the fan, we stop regardless until they get it together. I'm usually so far back in the pack redress wouldn't help anyway.
One other negative result of the internet is the Monday-morning (or should I say, years-later) quarterbacking. Did the A-cat worlds not have a qualified IJ? Hard to believe that would be allowed for an ISAF class.
Mike