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1 RULES
1.1 The regatta will
be governed by the ‘rules’ as defined in The Racing Rules of Sailing,
including RRS Appendix D – when not amended hereafter.
1.2 The SI’s for the
Individual Championship will apply unless they are inconsistent with
these Supplementary Sailing Instructions (SSI), in which case these
SSI’s shall apply.
1.3 The
prescriptions of the Yacht Racing Association of Thailand will not
apply.
1.4 Races will be
umpired: see instruction 14.
1.5 Rule D5 is
deleted.
2 ENTRIES
2.1 After the first
five races for each division sailed in the Individual Championship,
the total points of the four boats with the best cumulative results
from each team, without discarding any of the results, will be added
to give a team total score. The [13] teams with the best team total
scores will race in the Asian Team Racing Championship.
2.2 Each National
team will include up to 5 competitors. A maximum of 4 boats from those
National teams
shallwill
sail in a race. The assignment of boats to race shall be made by the
coach or team leader at his/her discretion and may be varied after
each race. The fifth boat not competing in the race shall remain
within the waiting area for the duration of the race. Failure to do
so may result in disqualification of the team.
2.3 Teams not
intending to enter in the Asian Team Racing Championship shall notify
the race committee immediately after the results of the first five
Individual Championship races are published. Such a team will be left
out of consideration.
3 CHANGES TO THE
SAILING INSTRUCTIONS
Amendments to the sailing
instructions may be made also on the water, and be verbally
communicated to the participants: this will be signalled by the
display of the [Third Substitute pennant] accompanied by three sound
signals, to signal that the competitors should come close to the Race
Committee boat to receive the verbal instructions. This amends the
Race Signals contained in the ISAF RRS.
4 FORMAT OF RACING
4.1 Attachment 2 to
these SSI shows the format of racing.
4.2 The format will
be a double elimination series where each team will race at least two
times. Teams having lost two times are eliminated from the
competition and may return ashore.
4.3 Teams will be
seeded in Flight A from 1st to [13th] according to their
overall standings as stated in SSI 2.1. Teams will be seeded in
ascending order on total team score.
5 SCHEDULE OF
RACES
5.1 Racing is
scheduled on 2 November. The spare day may be used (see SI 8.1).
5.2 Attachment 2 to
these SSI shows the numbers of races and the order in which races will
be started. Flights will follow the alphabetical order, and within
flights races will be started sequentially.
5.3 The scheduled
time of the warning signal for the first race each day is 1100.
6 CLASS FLAGS
Class flags
will be white flags with national letters.
7 RACING AREAS
There will be a
single racing area.
8 THE COURSES
8.1 The diagrams in
Attachment 1 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.
8.2 The Race
Committee will set a course which will take approximately 15–20
minutes. An actual shorter or longer racing time shall not be grounds
for seeking redress.
8.3 Courses will not
be shortened. This changes rule 32.
9 MARKS
The starting
and finishing marks will be an orange teardrop buoy at one end and a
race committee vessel at the other end.
10 THE START
10.1 Races will be
started as follows (this changes rule 26):
|
Signal |
Flag and Sound |
Minutes before
starting signal |
|
Warning |
Class flags;
1 sound |
5 |
|
Preparatory |
P;
1 sound |
3 |
|
One-minute |
Preparatory flag
removed; 1 sound |
1 |
|
Starting |
Class flags removed;
1 sound |
0 |
10.2 The starting line
will be the line between a mast displaying an orange flag on the RC
boat at the starboard end and an orange teardrop buoy at the port end.
10.3 Boats not racing
shall remain within the waiting area, which is situated
at least 100 meters
to leeward of the starting
line as shown in SSI Attachment 1, during the conduct of team racing,
until all races are finished. The windward boundary of the Waiting
Area will be signalled by bamboo buoys with pink flags.
Immediately
after finishing, 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.
10.4 A boat starting
later than 2 minutes after her starting signal will be scored Did Not
Start. This changes rule A4.1.
11 INDIVIDUAL RECALL
Individual
recalls will be made in accordance with RRS 29.2 except that flag X
will be flown for up to 2 minutes (changing RRS 29.2).
12 THE FINISH
The finishing
line will be between a staff displaying a blue flag on the committee
vessel at the starboard end and the finishing mark at the port end.
13 TIME LIMITS
13.1 Boats failing to
finish within 10 minutes after the first boat sails the course and
finishes will be scored Did Not Finish. This changes rules 35 and
A4.1.
14 UMPIRING
14.1 Races will be
umpired. For the purpose of these SSI, ‘umpire’ means any member of
the International Jury or other person appointed by the chairman of
the IJ.
14.2 Rule D2.3(a) will
apply.
14.3 Rule D2.2(d)4:
Delete “or report the incident to the protest committee, signaled by
displaying a black flag or both” and Add as follows:
“Both flags, black and red
together, with a long sound signal means: “The penalized boat is
disqualified. [However, she may continue racing.]”
14.4 Rule D2.4: Add
as follows:
“(d) A boat intending
to protest another boat under rule 14 when there is damage or
intending to request redress shall clearly display a red flag as soon
as possible after finishing or retiring and inform the Race Committee,
but not later than two minutes after the race is completed or after
the Race Committee decision on scoring is given.”
15 SCORING
15.1 Scoring will be
in accordance with RRS D3.1, except that rule D3.1(a) and (b) are
deleted and replaced by:
“(a) Each boat
finishing a race shall be scored points equal to her finishing place,
except that:
(1) A boat that did
not compete (DNC), did not start (DNS), did not finish (DNF), retired
after finishing (RAF) and that broke rule 29.1 (OCS) shall be scored 9
points; and
(2) A disqualified
boat (DSQ) shall be scored 12 points.
(3) a boat finishing
the race without complying with rule 28.1 within the time limit
described in SSI 13 shall be scored (DSQ) without the hearing.
Appendix A6
will apply.”
15.2 The winner of the
Championship will be the winner of race F28.
15.3 Rule D4 is
deleted. When Flight F is not completed, teams will be ranked inside
each Final (F28 and F29) according to her ranking when entering the
Asian Team Racing Championship.
16 SUPPORT BOATS
Team leaders, coaches and other support personnel shall remain
at
anchor
within the waiting area as defined in SSI Attachment 1 during the
conduct of team racing, until all races are finished. The penalty for
failing to comply with this requirement may be disqualification of the
team associated with the infringing support personnel. |
