2007 Wet Wednesday Series
Notice of Race
1. RULES
1.1 The regatta
will be governed by the 2005- 2008 Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS), the
prescriptions of US Sailing, the rules of the Southern California
1.2 J-24 Class Rules are modified so that GPS devices may be used. 1.3 The series
will be restricted to advertising Category A.
2. ENTRIES AND FEES
2.1 Eligible
boats may be entered for the series by completing a registration form with the
Santa Barbara Yacht Club prior to the first race sailed by that boat in the
series. Entry is also available online
through the SBYC Racing page. Changes
made in sail number or PHRF rating during the course of the series will require
submission of a new registration form. Exceptions are at the sole discretion of the race committee.
2.2 This series
is open to all members of the Santa Barbara Yacht Club. Members of other clubs belonging to US
Sailing may race, as a guest of Santa Barbara Yacht Club, a maximum of three
times during the regatta. Non-members
desiring to compete for the series will be subject a $100 entry fee for each
Spring, Summer, and Fall portion of the Wet Wednesday Series, or $250 entry fee
for all three portions.
2.3 All yachts
entering a
2.4 Any PHRF or
One Design boat may also enter as an H Fleet competitor, but must inform the
Race Committee at least one hour before the first warning of its election to do
so. If a boat is entered in more than one fleet, a DNC will be scored for that
boat in the fleet not raced. Series scores for dual class entries will remain
independent and scored as if they were separate boats.
3. QUALIFYING SERIES
Qualification for class championships and the SBYC
Centennial Regatta shall be as defined by the
4. SCHEDULE
4.1 Wet Wednesday
Series will be sailed in 3 separate segments, designated Spring Summer and
Fall. The segments will each last 8
weeks with the following schedule:
2007 WW Spring: April 4th through
May 23rd
2007 WW Summer: June 6th through
July 25th
2007 WW Fall: August 8th through
September 26th
4.2 Wet Wednesday
races will be run on May 30th and August 1st , however they will not count
towards Wet Wednesday Series Scoring.
4.3 Fun races
will be run on March 21st, March 28th, October 4th, and October 11th, however
these will not count towards the Wet Wednesday Series. No throw out will be taken from this series.
5. CLASSES
Classes shall be divided as follows:
H Fleet H Fleet Handicaps (As per H Fleet
rules)
PHRF- A PHRF ratings 83 and below Melges 24 One design
J-105 One design
PHRF- B PHRF ratings 84 to 149
J-24 One design
PHRF-C PHRF ratings 150 and above
6. SPINNAKERS
Spinnakers will be allowed for all classes. Boats electing not to use spinnakers must
state that election on the boat’s entry form for each segment. If elected, the boat’s rating will be
adjusted by adding appropriate offset to the boat’s spinnaker rating. Once the selection of spinnaker or
non-spinnaker rating has been made, it is effective for the entire segment. The original rating before non-spinnaker
adjustment will be used for class designation. Non-spinnaker rating adjustments will not be given for H Fleet
competitors.
7. SAILING
INSTRUCTIONS
Sailing Instructions will be available in the SBYC Hallway
or online at www.sbyc.org/racing.
8. VENUE
The racing area will be as designated on the current 2007
Santa Barbara Yacht Club course chart.
9. COURSES
9.1 Courses will
be taken from the current 2007 Santa Barbara Yacht Club course chart. The course for each race will be posted from
the Santa Barbara Yacht Club deck with the preparatory signal for each class.
9.2 When an ‘R’
placard follows the course number, the course shall be sailed in the reverse
direction (all
9.3 When a ‘T’
placard follows the course number, the course shall be sailed two times around. The Start/finish line will be required at the
beginning of the second lap.
9.4 The J/105 class shall leave Mark K to starboard on legs beginning from the start line or Mark X, and ending at Marks D or A.
10. PENALTY SYSTEM
RRS Rule 44.2 is modified such that a boat may exonerate an
infringement of a Part 2 Rule by completing one penalty turn, including one
tack and one gybe.
11. SCORING
11.1 The low-point
scoring system of Appendix A will apply for each segment. One race result may be discarded in each.
11.2 Trophies for
the top finishers in each segment (Spring, Summer and Fall) of the Wet
Wednesday Series will be awarded trophies at the annual trophy dinner.
11.3 For the Wet
Wednesday Class perpetual trophies, a competitor’s series score is the sum
of the finish position (1,2,3, etc.) of its best two segments
(Spring, Summer and Fall). In the event of a tie, a competitor’s
finish position in the previously uncounted series will be used to
break the tie. If there is still a tie
between two or more boats, each boat’s Wet Wednesday race scores in
all races shall be listed in order of best to worst, and at the first
point where there is a difference the tie shall be broken in favor of the boat
with the better score. No excluded
scores shall be used. This modifies RRS
Appendix A. Boats failing to compete in
a segment shall receive a finish position one greater than the largest number
of boats competing in that fleet in a segment of that season.
11.4 Race Committee
duty will be scored as a first place if the race for R/C boat’s class is completed,
except, if the R/C boat races, the boat’s score for that race will be
utilized. Race committee duty will count
only once during the series.
11.5 Boats that
register for a segment but fail to compete shall be excluded from that
segment’s scoring.
11.6 Segment scores
shall be final at their completion. Additional entries after the end of a segment shall not affect the
number of boats scored in that segment.
12. RADIO
COMMUNICAITON
The Race Committee shall monitor VHF Channel 71 but will not
answer questions from boats considered to be Racing.
13. PRIZES
13.1 Individual
trophies will be awarded to the class winners for each race. The
nember of trophies will be awarded depending on
participation. Three or fewer
boats in a class will receive one trophy; four to five boats
will receive two trophies; six to seven boats will receive three trophies; eight
to nine boats receive four trophies and ten or more boats receive five
trophies.
13.2 Season
trophies will be awarded in accordance with the Deeds of Gift and Sailing
Instruction 18.3.
14. DISCLAIMER OF
LIABILITY
Participants in this event compete entirely at their own risk. See Rule 4, Decision to Race. The organizing authority will not accept any liability for material damage or personal injury or death sustained in conjunction with or prior to, during, or after the regatta.
15. INFORMATION
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