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3/2010054/261005
Subject to approval by PRO and IJ
1. RULES
1.1 The regatta will be governed by the ‘rules’ as defined in
The Racing Rules of Sailing.
1.2 The Asian Team Racing Championship will be governed
by the Supplementary Sailing Instructions.
1.3 The prescriptions of the Yacht Racing Association of
Thailand will not apply.
1.4 If there is a conflict between languages the English text
will prevail.
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3 BOATS
3.1 Boats will be provided according to Notice of Race (NoR) 15
(Charterboats) for all competitors. Except as provided in NoR 11
(Measurement), all equipment provided with the boat for sailing
purposes under the charter agreement and measured by the Measurement
Committee shall be in the boat while afloat.
3.2 In addition to IODA Class Rules 4.2(a) and (b), 4.3(a) and
(b), each boat shall have on board a secured paddle with a blade
surface of not less than 0.025 square meters and each competitor shall
carry a whistle attached to clothing with a lanyard. Competitors not
complying with this instruction will be penalized with 5 points for
each race of the day on which they have failed to observe this
instruction.
This
changes rule 60.2(a).
3.3 The penalty for not complying with NoR 11 and SI 3 will be
disqualification from all races sailed in which the instruction was
broken.
This
changes rule 60.2(a).
3.4 Competitors shall report any damage or loss of equipment,
however slight, to the organizing authority’s representative
immediately after securing the boat ashore. The penalty for breaking
this instruction, unless the International Jury is satisfied that the
competitor made a determined effort to comply, will be
disqualification from the race most recently sailed.
3.5 Failure or loss of chartered equipment shall not be grounds
for requesting redress.
4 NOTICES TO COMPETITORS
4.1 Notices to competitors will be posted on the official
notice board located in the RVYC Junior Clubhouse.
5 CHANGES TO SAILING INSTRUCTIONS
5.1
Any change to the sailing instructions will be posted before
[0900]0800
on the day it will take effect, except that any change to the schedule
of races will be posted by 2000 on the day before it will take effect.
5.2 Any changes to the Supplementary Sailing Instructions will
be posted before 0800 on the day that it takes effect, except that any
changes to the scheduled times of races will be posted by 2000 on the
day before it takes effect.
6 SIGNALS MADE ASHORE
6.1 Signals made ashore will be displayed from the official
flagpole located at RVYC beach bar. When a signal is displayed over a
division flag it applies to that division only.
6.2
Flag D with a sound signal means ‘The
warning signal will be made not less than 60 minutes after flag
D is displayed. Boats shall not leave the
beach until this signal is made.
When flag AP is displayed ashore, the warning
signal will be made not less than 30 minutes after flag
AP is lowered.
6.3
Code
flags D over T means: SI 6.2 applies to boats competing in the Asian
Team Racing Championship.
7 FORMAT OF RACING
7.1
Practice Race
All competitors will be started divided into two fleets as follows:
|
Start |
Competitors |
Class flag |
|
1st Start |
Boats whose sail number ends with an odd number
(1, 3, 5, 7...) |
Yellow |
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2nd start |
Boats whose sail number ends with an even number
(0, 2, 4, 6...) |
White |
7.2 Individual Racing Championship
(a) Divisions
The fleet will be divided into four divisions for the
whole duration of the Championship. Attachment 3 shows the starting
schedule.
(b) Identification of Divisions
All boats will display a coloured ribbon (corresponding to
the colour of each division class flag) permanently fixed at the top
of the sprit. These ribbons will be provided by the Race Office.
(c) Allocation to divisions
First, the total number of boats will be sorted on:
(i) alphabetical order of the National Letters,
(ii) numerical order of the sail numbers (within the
alphabetical order).
Then, the seeding of the boats in the four divisions will be done as
following: starting with the first boat of the sorted list and
attributing the boat to the four divisions in the following order: 1,
2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, and so on (the number of the division to start
with, will be draw by lot). The seeding will be done as soon as
possible after the completion of registration.
7.3 Asian Team Racing Championship
(See NoR 7.2 and supplementary sailing instructions)
8 SCHEDULE OF RACES
8.1 Racing is scheduled as follows:
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29 October (Saturday) |
Official Arrival Day
Registration and Measurement |
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30 October (Sunday) |
Registration and Measurement
1100:
Team Leaders / Coaches’ meeting
1400:
Practice race
1730:
Opening Ceremony |
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31 October (Monday) |
Individual Racing Championship
(3 races) |
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1 November (Tuesday) |
Individual Racing Championship
(3 races) |
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2 November (Wednesday) |
Asian Team Racing Championship |
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3 November (Thursday) |
Rest/Spare Day |
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4 November (Friday) |
Individual Racing Championship
(3 races) |
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5 November (Saturday) |
Individual Racing Championship
(3
races)
Prize-giving and Closing Ceremony |
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6 November (Sunday) |
Official Departure Day |
8.2 The numbers of races scheduled are as follows:
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Number of races |
Races per day |
|
Individual Racing Championship |
12 |
2 or
3up
to 4 |
(a) If at the end of 1 November less than 5 races have been
completed, Individual Racing Championship will continue on 2 November
until completion of 5 races.
(b) The reserve day may be used to complete the Asian Team
Racing Championship.
(c)
One extra race per day may be sailed, provided that no division
becomes more than one race ahead of schedule.
8.3 The scheduled time of the warning signal for the first race
each day is
[1100].1000.
8.4 When there has been a long postponement and when more than
one race (or sequence of races, for two or more divisions) will be
held on the same day, the warning signal for the first race and each
succeeding race will be made as soon as practicable. To alert boats
that a race or sequence of races will begin soon, an orange flag will
be displayed with one sound for at least four minutes before a warning
signal is displayed.
8.5 On the last day of the regatta no warning signal will be
made after 1500 hours.
9 CLASS FLAGS
Class flags will be:
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Division |
Flag |
|
1 |
White |
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2 |
Blue |
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3 |
Red |
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4 |
Yellow |
10 RACING AREA
10.1 Attachment 1 shows the location of the racing area.
11 THE COURSES
11.1 The diagrams in Attachment 2 show the course, including the
approximate angles between legs, the order in which marks are to be
passed, and the side on which each mark is to be left.
11.2
The Race Committee will set a course which will take approximately 50
minutes. An actual shorter or longer racing time shall not be grounds
for seeking redress.
11.3 No later than the warning signal, the race committee signal
boat will display the approximate compass bearing of the first leg.
11.4 When there is a gate, boats shall sail between the gate
marks from the direction of the previous mark and round either gate
mark.
12 MARKS
12.1 Marks 1, 2, 3S and 3P will be
orangeblue
inflatable cylindrical buoys.
12.2 New marks, as provided in instruction 14.1, will be
[black]
inflatable spherical buoys.
12.3 The starting and finishing marks will be race committee
boats in the starboard end of the starting and finishing line, and
a boat with an orange flag or
an orange teardrop buoy at the port end.
12.4 A race committee boat signalling a change of course is a
mark as provided in instruction 14.2.
13 THE START
13.1 Races will be started by using rule 26.
13.2 Attachment 3 shows the order in which divisions will be
started.
13.3 The starting line will be between orange flag on committee
boat and
a boat with an orange flag or
an orange teardrop buoy at the port end.
13.4 Once the starting sequence for the first two divisions
(e.g.: 1A, 2A, 3A, etc.) in any race has commenced, all boats from
other divisions shall wait inside the waiting area. The waiting area
windward boundary will be signalled by bamboo buoys with pink flags.
Boats may approach the starting line only after the starting signal
of the previous divisions has been made and no general recall has been
signalled.
Boats that have finished shall return directly to the waiting area,
keeping well clear of all boats racing and of all boats whose warning
signal has been made.
13.5 A boat starting later than 4 minutes after her starting
signal will be scored Did Not Start. This changes rule A4.1.
13.6 If any part of a boat’s hull, crew or equipment is on the
course side of the starting line during the two minutes before her
starting signal, the race committee may display flag V. It will be
displayed until all boats have sailed completely to the pre-start
side, but not after the starting signal.
14 CHANGE OF THE POSITION OF THE NEXT MARK
14.1 To change the next leg of the course, the race committee
will lay a new mark (or move the finishing line) and remove the
original mark as soon as practicable. When in a subsequent change a
new mark is replaced, it will be replaced by an original mark.
14.2 Except at a gate, boats shall pass between the race
committee boat signalling the change of course and the nearby mark,
leaving the mark to port and the race committee boat to starboard.
This changes rule 28.1.
15 THE FINISH
15.1 The finishing line will be between orange flag on committee
boat and an orange teardrop buoy at the port end.
16 PENALTY SYSTEM
16.1 A boat that has taken a penalty or retired under rule 31.2
or 44.1 shall complete an acknowledgement form at the race office
within the protest time limit.
16.2 Appendix P will apply. For the purposes of this appendix,
the Individual Racing Championship and the Asian Team Racing
Championship are considered as two different regattas.
16.3 The International Jury will observe racing for rule
infringements in addition to enforcing RRS 42. When the Jury sees an
infringement of a rule of Part 2, they may make one sound signal but
no sail numbers will be hailed. This signal means that one or more
boats should take a penalty under rule 44.1. If no penalty is taken
the Jury may protest one or more boats.
17 TIME LIMITS AND TARGET TIMES
17.1 Time limits and target times (in minutes) are as follows:
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Time limit |
Mark 1 time limit |
Target time |
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90 |
30 |
50 |
If no boat has passed Mark 1 within the Mark 1 time limit
the race will be abandoned.
17.2 Boats failing to finish within 20 minutes after the first
boat sails the course and finishes will be scored Did Not Finish. This
changes rules 35 and A4.1.
18 PROTESTS AND REQUESTS FOR REDRESS
18.1 Boats are not exempted from displaying a red flag according
to the second sentence of RRS 61.1(a). A boat required to display a
flag shall do so until she is no longer racing, and shall inform the
RC of the boat being protested immediately after finishing. This
amends RRS 61.1(a).
18.2 Protest forms are available at the race office. Protests
shall be delivered there within the protest time limit. The protest
time limit is 60 minutes after the last boat has finished the last
race of the day.
18.3 Notices will be posted within 30 minutes of the protest time
limit to inform competitors of hearings in which they are parties or
named as witnesses. Hearings will be held in the jury office. No
protest hearing will be started after 2200.
18.4 Notices of protests by the race committee or jury will be
posted to inform boats under rule 61.1(b).
18.5 A list of boats that, under instruction 16.2, have
acknowledged breaking rule 42 or have been disqualified by the jury
will be posted before the protest time limit.
18.6 For the purpose of measurement rule protests (RRS 64.3(b))
the “authority responsible” is the IODA Technical Committee
representative.
18.7 Breaches of instructions 3, 10.2, 13.3, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25
and 26 will not be grounds for a protest by a boat. This changes rule
60.1(a). Penalties for these breaches may be less than
disqualification if the jury so decides.
The sail numbers of boats penalized under NoR 10.1 will be posted, as
soon as possible, but within the protest time limit.
18.8 On the last day of the regatta a request for reopening a
hearing shall be delivered
(a) within the protest time limit if the party requesting
reopening was informed of the decision on the previous day;
(b) no later than 30 minutes after the party requesting
reopening was informed of the decision on that day.
This changes rule 66.
18.9 Decisions of the jury will be final as provided in rule
70.4. Penalties for infringements will be at the sole discretion of
the jury and may be less than DSQ. Rule 64.1 refers.
19 SCORING
19.1 5 races are required to be completed to constitute a series.
Each race of two divisions together will be scored as one race in
which all competitors of those two divisions have entered.
For overall scoring purposes, a race will be defined as ONE COMPLETED
RACE FOR ALL 4 DIVISIONS in the sequential numbering of races in
Attachment 3. (Example: Race 3 is not completed until 3A and 3B have
been completed.). Therefore only races which have been completed for
all 4 divisions will count towards the overall scoring.
19.2 (a) When fewer than 5 races have been completed, a
boat’s series score will be the total of her race scores.
(b) When from 5 to 9 races have been completed, a boat’s series
score will be the total of her race scores excluding her worst score.
(c) When 10 or more races have been completed, a boat’s series
score will be the total of her race scores excluding her two worst
scores.
19.3 To request correction of an alleged error in posted race or
series results, a boat shall complete a scoring enquiry form available
at the race office.
19.4 The scoring abbreviation for a discretionary penalty imposed
under instruction 18.7 will be DPI.
20 SAFETY REGULATIONS
20.1 A boat that retires from a race shall notify the race
committee as soon as possible.
20.2 Each day of competition, the coaches or Team Leaders shall
notify before 1000 hours at the Race Office the boats not intending to
race that day.
20.3 Prior to sailing off the beach, each skipper shall place
his/her skipper ID on the tally board. Within 15 minutes of returning
to shore, each skipper shall remove his/her skipper ID from the tally
board. Any skipper failing to place his/her skipper ID on the tally
board prior to sailing, or failing to remove his/her skipper ID within
15 minutes of coming ashore, shall receive a penalty of 5 points in
the race most recently sailed.
20.4 Competitors who require assistance should so signify by
blowing a whistle or waving the paddle or one arm. The race committee
reserves the right to assist competitors who, in its opinion, require
assistance regardless of the wishes of the competitor. This will not
be grounds for seeking redress according to RRS 62.1.a.
21 REPLACEMENT OF EQUIPMENT
21.1 Substitution of damaged or lost equipment will not be
allowed unless approved in writing by the race committee. Requests for
substitution shall be made to the race committee at the first
reasonable opportunity.
21.2 Substitution of damaged equipment on the water between races
may be permitted providing that the substitution of such equipment has
been approved by the Race Committee. The substituting equipment shall
be checked by the Measurement Committee after the end of the day’s
racing. Such substitution is subject to further approval in writing by
the race committee.
22 EQUIPMENT AND MEASUREMENT CHECKS
A boat or equipment may be inspected at any time for compliance with
the class rules and sailing instructions. The top ten finishing boats
at every race shall sail to the Measurement Committee boat (displaying
a white flag marked “M”) at the starboard side of the finishing line.
No adjustments shall be made on the boat before the measurement
control.
23 OFFICIAL BOATS
Official boats will be marked as follows:
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