...if all the teams are allowed to talk to their road crew, who all have access to the data, there is nothing unfair about it.
Sailing Instructions may change RRS 41 "Outside Help" to permit boats to receive information from shore crew. Exactly what is permissible depends on the wording of the SIs.
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Besides, it would be close to impossible to prove without witnesses, and there is no PC for this event.
Most of the regattas I attend have no standing protest committee. If a protest is filed, Race Committee forms a Protest Committee ad. hoc.
The hardest job Protest Committee has, is figuring out what happened (a.k.a. "finding facts"). Because sailboat racing is not typically umpired, impartial observers are rare. All PC can do is take the available testimony and reconstruct the incident as best it can. That then becomes the "facts found". Applying the rules is the easy part.
