Appendix G - Advertising
See rule 79. This appendix shall not be changed by Sailing Instructions or prescriptions by national authorities. When governmental requirements conflict with parts of it, those requirements apply.

G1 Definition of Advertising
For the purposes of this appendix, advertising is the name, logo, slogan, description, depiction, a variation or distortion thereof, or any other form of communication that promotes an organization, person, product, service, brand or idea so as to call attention to it or to persuade persons or organizations to buy, approve or otherwise support it.

G2 General
  G 2.1 Advertisements and anything advertised shall meet generally accepted moral and ethical standards.

  G 2.2 This appendix shall apply when racing and, in addition, unless otherwise stated in the notice of race, from 0700 on the first race day of a regatta until the expiry of the time limit for lodging protests following the last race of the regatta.

  G 2.3 An event shall be designated Category A, B or C in its notice of race and Sailing Instructions, but if not so designated it shall be Category A. After the notice of race has been published, the category shall not be changed within ninety days before the event without prior approval of the national authority of the organizing authority.

  G 2.4 A national authority may prescribe rules for advertising that are more restrictive than those of a category. For a particular event, the notice of race and the Racing Instructions or the rules of a class may include rules for advertising that are more restrictive than those of the event's category.

  G 2.5 Advertisements on sails shall be clearly separated from national letters and sail numbers.

  G 2.6 When, after finding the facts, a protest committee decides that a board has broken a rule of this appendix, the protest committee shall ;

    (a) warn the board that further infringement will result in disqualification; or
    (b) disqualify the board in accordance with rule 64.1; or
    (c) disqualify the board from more than one race or from the series when it decides that the infringement warrants a stronger penalty; or
    (d) act under rule 69.1 when it decides that there may have been a gross breach.

  G 2.7 The ISAF, a national authority or a class association may, for its events, subject to rule G5, designate the category and may require a fee for doing so.

  G 2.8 The ISAF or a national authority may, for its events, prescribe rules and require a fee for giving consent to individual boards for advertisements, provided that such consents do not conflict with, when relevant, class rules.

G3 Category A

  G 3.2 Advertising on boards is permitted only as follows:

    (a) The insignia or logo of the board manufacturer may be displayed on the sail above the sail numbers.
    (b) One sailmaker's mark, which may include the name or mark of the sailcloth manufacturer and the pattern or model of the sail, may be displayed on both sides of the sail. No part of such mark shall be placed farther from the tack than 20% of the length of the foot of the sail, including the mast sleeve. The mark may also be displayed on the lower half of the part of the sail above the wishbone but no part of it shall be farther than 50 cm from the clew.
    (c) The board's type or manufacturer's name or logo may be placed on the hull in two places and on the upper third of the part of the sail above the wishbone. One maker's mark may be displayed on spars, on each side of small equipment and on a competitor's clothing and harness.
    (d) The organizing authority of a sponsored event may permit or require the display of an advertisement of the event sponsor on both sides of the sail between the sail numbers and the wishbone and on a bib worn by the competitor. For an event of a class association, such advertising requires approval by the class association and, when it so prescribes, by the national authority concerned. Notice of such permission or requirement shall be included in the notice of race and the Sailing Instructions.