Nice to have Matt viciously attacking me again. He does love me, you know!
And don't worry.., the Tradewinds is totally under control with three paid Judges from US Sailing.

I was right there on the line and saw the entire incident, and Craig Van Eaton filmed the entire thing. I am hoping he will put that on the forum sometime soon.

There were no protests filed, and had there been, it would have been heard. We simply try to avoid nit-picky crap. This wasn't one of those.., when there is damage you have a problem and it needs to be addressed.

With about 30 seconds left it appeared Skip (ARC22) and Todd (Damaged N20) were approaching slowly to the starboard end of the line. (OH, and by the way, Jake, I set a very heavily favored port end, knowing if I didn't set it that way everyone would be at the windward end, and even so, they still were for some reason. The hot boats did start down the line and most of jumped out to nice leads)
It appeared Skip thought he might get in between Todd and the mark, but when Todd sheeted in the boat obviously pointed higher and closed the gap.
There was a boat above skip, so he could not go up (although in hindsight it would been just a bump, not a piercing of a hull). It appeared to me he tried to drive behind Todd's stern. As you all know with the amount of purchase on an ARC22 Mainsheet System, that sail is not going to go flying out to allow such a dramatic turn.
So, you had a mainsail trying to take the boat to windward, and hulls trying unsuccessfully to head down.
The result was the rudders coming out and up and becoming useless, the bow going down, and the sprit just a foot or so off the water just before the spearing.

At any rate, that was what I saw. Perhaps the video will show something a bit different.

It is amazing that someone like Matt would be ready to jail, lynch Skip and wanting to take it to the Supreme Court not knowing a damn thing about it. Of course, Matt loves to blatantly jump on my case at every chance. By the way, the damage was above the waterline and nothing was structural. We suggested Todd duct tape it and sail on. I know I would have. Hell, it keeps ducks floating.