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Club Competition    Current competition standings

Although none of our members are currently active in competitive yacht racing outside our club, we have a number of members with racing yachts, mostly IOM, but including RA, Marblehead and 36R yachts.

Club Competition

We run a competition through the year with the following sailing instructions:

1. A series of regattas will be held over the year with all races counting as a single series towards the annual championship.
   

2. The regattas are governed by the ISAF 'Racing Rules of Sailing', including Appendix E, these sailing instructions and the notice of race, if any.
   

3.  Unless otherwise declared by prior notice, the first race of the day will commence at 10.15 am prompt.  The final race will not commence later than 12.30 pm.
   

4. Any race lasting more than 30 minutes (i.e. where the winner has not crossed the finish line within 30 minutes of the start) will be abandoned.
   

5. All races will finish not more than 5 minutes after the winner has crossed the line regardless of the number of finishers at that stage.  All competitors who have not crossed the finish at this point will be awarded ‘positions on the water’ by the RO.
   

6. The RO and all skippers will act as observers and shall call any contact seen.  Where a skipper's boat is involved in a contact they must immediately declare (loudly please!) a protest, or that they will take a penalty turn.
   

7. Any protest hearing will be heard by the RO.  Any skipper may give evidence as an 'observer'.  Any skipper found at fault and who has not taken a penalty turn will be awarded a 'DND'.  Any redress awarded is at the discretion of the RO.  The RO's decision is final.
   

8. As several different classes of boat and levels of skipper will be racing, the starts will be staggered.  The sail secretary at the commencement of the year will allocate individual competitors a start colour.  The competitor’s start colour may be varied during the course of the year at the discretion of the Sail Secretary in order to preserve the balance of the handicaping.  The starting sequence using a pre recorded tape is:
   

9. Scoring will be by the normal 'low point scoring system'.  Any competitor not available for any race or any regatta will be scored DNC for that race or series of races.  Discards will be allowed in the normal manner for the total series of races at the year end, i.e.:
   
   

10. Any competitor who misses a single event will be allocated a score for each race in that event equal to their average score for all the other races in the year.  However, if a competitor misses more than one event then they will be allocated a DNC score for all missed races.  Otherwise, for any race missed during an event the competitor will be allocated a DNC score.

11. The final result for the championship will be declared at the club AGM

Current competition standings

The 2001 Champion was:

                                                Steve Booty

Unfortunately, our 2002 racing season was hit by 'bad' weather, seeing two events abandoned due to very high winds, and a further two due to no wind at all.  The club committee have therefore reluctantly decided not to award a championship this year as the number of races actually run were to small to make this meaningful

Here's hoping for better luck next year

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