SAILING
INSTRUCTIONS
1.
RULES
This regatta will be governed by the
rules as defined in the current Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS)
including the J-24 class rules (as modified by the NOR);
the Championship
Conditions: and the Sailing Instructions.
This regatta is classified as
a Category C event in accordance with Regulation 20, ISAF Advertising
Code.
2.
ENTRIES
2.1 Eligible
crews may be entered be completing registration with the organizing
authority and paying the $375.00 entry fee to Bahia Corinthian
Yacht Club before 2400 hrs,
September 6, 2002. Damage
deposit and borrowed boat insurance fee
will be paid at time of registration.
2.2 Eligibility
requirements for competitors are per US SAILING prescription,Appendix
P. All groups will be
eligible to compete.
3
NOTICE TO COMPETITORS
Notice to Competitors will be posted on the official regatta notice
board located near the front
office of Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club.
4
CHANGES TO SAILING INSTRUCTIONS
Any change in the Sailing Instructions will be posted before
0900 hours on the day it
will take effect, except that any change in the schedule of races will
be posted by 2000 hours on the
day before it will take effect.
5
SIGNALS MADE ASHORE
5.1 Signals
made ashore will be displayed from the flagpole located on the
southwestof the club building.
5.2 Code
Flag AP with two sound signals means “the race is postponed”.
The warning signal well
be made not less than one hour after the AP is lowered (one sound
signal when lowered).
6. SPECIAL
SIGNALS
6.1
The display of Flag “H”
(white and red vertical bars) at the finish of any race
means, “Racing has ended for the day”.
6.2 The
display of Flag “V” (red “X” on a white background) before the
warning signal with one
sound signal or during the race at a mark with periodic sound
signals means, “Spinnakers shall not be used from this time
on in this race”.
7. BOATS
7.1 Boats
and sails will be provided for all competitors, who shall not modify
them or the standing
rigging, or cause them to be modified in any way except that:
(a) a compass may be
tied or taped to the hull or spars;
(b) wind indicators,
including yarn or thread, may be tied or taped anywhere on the boat;
(c) hulls, keels and
rudders may be cleaned only with water;
(d) masking tape
only may be used anywhere above the water line.
7.2 All
equipment provided with the boat for sailing purposes shall be in the
boat while afloat.
7.3 Competitors
shall report any damage or loss of equipment, however slight, to the
organizing authority’s representative immediately after each
race. The penalty for breaking
this instruction, unless the jury is satisfied that the competitor
made a determined effort to
comply, will be handled in accordance with paragraph 7.4
below
7.4 The
penalty for not complying with one of the above rules may be
disqualification from the
race or races sailed in which the rule is broken.
7.5 A
random drawing for boat assignment for the first race will take place
at the competitors meeting on
Thursday September 26, 2002. The
competitors will change boats
for all subsequent races according to the schedule in Appendix
B.
8. SCHEDULE
OF RACES
8.1 A
competitors meeting will be held at 0930 hours Thursday, September 26,
2002 in the dining room at
Bahia Corinthian Yacht Club.
8.2 The
scheduled time of the warning signal for the first race each day is
1200 hours.
8.3 The
distance form the harbor to the racing area is approximately 3 miles.
8.4 Should
conditions make it impossible to complete the scheduled number of
races, the regatta shall be
terminated and the results based on the races completed and
scored. (The Chief Judge and PRO in compliance with the
Championship Conditions shall determine
such termination and decisions regarding results.)
9. CLASS
FLAG
The Class Flag will be a blue J 24 on a white flag.
10. RACING
AREA
The Racing Area will be approximately ¼
mile southwest of the Balboa Pier
11. THE
COURSE
11.1
The diagram shown in Appendix
A of these Sailing Instructions show the
courses, including the order in which the marks are to be
passed and the side
on which each mark is to be left.
11.2
The courses will be windward/leeward.
The distance between the windward
and leeward mark will not exceed approximately one nautical
mile. The course
number will be designated on a blue placard with a white number
displayed on the RC signal
boat.
11.3
The approximate compass bearing from the leeward mark to the
weather mark will be displayed
by numeral pennants located on a pole on the RC signal
boat.
12. MARKS
12.1
Marks 1, 2 and 3 will be yellow inflatable shapes.
12.2
The marks designating the start/finish line will be an orange
flag on a floating staff
and an orange flag on or near the RC signal boat.
13. THE
START
13.1
Races will be started using Rule 26.
13.2
The starting line will be between the staff from which an
orange flag is displayed on or
near the RC signal boat at the starboard end and the courseside of the
port-end starting mark
13.3
Boats will not start later that four (4) minutes after their
starting signal.
14. RECALLS
The Race Committee will hail the sail numbers of OCS boats after
the starting signal.
The failure of any boat to hear the hail, the hail of some but
not all OCS boats, the
untimely hail of some or all OCS boats or failure to hail any or all
boats shall not be grounds for granting redress.
This changes RRS 62.1.
15. CHANGE OF
POSITION OF THE NEXT MARK
To change the position of the next mark, the Race Committee will
lay a new mark (or move the
finishing line) and remove the original mark, as soon as
practicable. The
change will be signaled before the leading boat has begun
the leg, although the new mark may not be in position.
Any mark to be rounded
after rounding the new mark may be relocated without further
signaling to maintain the original course configuration.
When in a subsequent change
of course a new mark is replaced, it will be replaced with an original
mark.
16. THE FINISH
The finish line will be between a staff displaying an orange flag
on a Race Committee boat and
the course side of a nearby orange sphere (if the course is
shortened), or between the orange flag on or near the RC signal
boat and the orange flag on the
floating staff.
17. PENALTY
SYSTEM
Appendix N will apply, modified as follows:
a. N2.2 is
changed to “second time and subsequent times”
b. N2.3 is
deleted
c. N3 is
changed to read: “if
a boat has been protested under rule N1 and the
Race Committee signals a postponement, general recall, or
abandonment, the penalty of
penalties are cancelled.
18. TIME
LIMIT
18.1 The
time limit for each race will be 90 minutes for the first boat to
finish. This changes Rule
35.
18.2
Boats finishing more that 20 minutes after the first boat that
sails the course finishes or
within the time limit, whichever is later, shall be scored DNF.
This changes Rule 35.
18.3
If a boat in last place in a race is delaying the start of
another race, the Race Committee
may terminate the race and score that boat in the place she would
have finished.
19. PROTEST AND
REQUEST FOR REDRESS
19.1
A boat intending to protest about an incident which occurs in
the racing area shall notify
the Race Committee finish boat of her intention, including the
number of the boat(s) being protested.
This changes RRS 61.1(a).
19.2
Protests shall be written on forms available at the BCYC main
office and delivered to the
main office within one hour after the Race Committee boat
docks. The protest
time limit will be posted on the official notice board.
19.3
A list of protests will be posted on the official notice board
within 20 minutes of the end of
protest time. This
posting constitutes the notification required in
RRS 61.1(b) and 63.2.
19.4
A boat is not permitted to protest another boat for breaking
sailing instructions 18, 19.1,
or 23. This changes RRS
60.1.
20. SCORING
The Low Point Scoring System of Appendix
A of the racing rules will apply.
Each boats score will be the total of her scores in all races.
Ten (10) races are
scheduled. If conditions
do not allow all scheduled races to be sailed, the
regatta will be terminated and scored based on those races
completed.
21. BREAKDOWNS
21.1
In any round robin series or in a series where the boats are
provided by the organizing
authority, a boat whose finishing place, through no fault of her
own, is made significantly worse because of a breakdown may
seek redress. This changes RRS
62.1.
21.2 A
boat seeking redress for breakdown shall display a yellow flag as soon
as practicable, and continue to
display it until informed by the Race Committee
or jury to remove it.
22. DISPOSAL
OF TRASH
Boats shall not discharge trash into the water.
The penalty for breaking this rule
will be at the discretion of the jury and may include adding points to
a boat’s score in the race or
the series.
23. SAFETY
REGULATIONS
23.1 All
competitors in US SAILING Championships, at all levels, shall wear,
while on the water, other that
brief periods while adding or removing clothing, an
approved PFD (US Coast Guard or Canadian), except where ORC
regulations apply.
23.2 A
boat retiring from a race shall notify a Race Committee vessel before
leaving the course, or, when
that is impossible, the Regatta Office immediately after
arrival ashore.
24. PRIZES
Prizes will be awarded to each member of the crew placing first,
second and third.
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