2018 F18 & F16 Victorian Championships Organising Authority: Westernport Yacht Club in conjunction with the Victorian Formula 18 Catamaran Association and the Australian Formula 16 Association 10-12 March 2018 SAILING INSTRUCTIONS 1. RULES 1.1. The regatta will be governed by the rules as defined in The Racing Rules of Sailing. 1.2. Australian Sailing Special Regulations Part 2 will apply. 2. NOTICES TO COMPETITORS Notices to competitors will be posted on the official notice board(s) located at Westernport Yacht Club. 3. CHANGES TO SAILING INSTRUCTIONS Any change to the sailing instructions will be posted before 10:00 on the day it will take effect, except that any change to the schedule of races will be posted by 19:00 on the day before it will take effect. 4. SIGNALS MADE ASHORE 4.1. Signals made ashore will be displayed on the signal mast of the club. 4.2. When flag AP is displayed ashore, 1 minute is replaced with not less than 30 minutes in the race signal AP. 5. SCHEDULE OF RACES Date Races per Day First Warning Signal 10 th March 2016 3-5 11:00 11 th March 2016 3-5 10:00 12 th March 2016 2-4 10:00 5.1 No warning signal will be made after 15:00 on the last day of racing. 5.2 After a long postponement, 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 five minutes before a warning signal is displayed. 5.3 The Starting Sequence will be the same starting order as that listed in Clause 6: Class Flags. F18 & F16 will start together. 2016 F18 & Viper Victorian Championships Sailing Instructions Page 1
6 CLASS FLAG Class F18 & F16 Flag F18 Class Flag 7 RACING AREAS The racing area will be on the waters of Westernport, off the Westernport Yacht Club. 8 THE COURSES The diagram in Attachment 1 shows the courses, the order in which marks are to be passed and the side on which each mark is to be left. 9 MARKS 9.1 The Start mark will be a stick buoy flying a pink flag. 9.2 Marks A, B,Cs and Cp will be large orange cylindrical buoys. 9.3 Mark X will be orange cylindrical buoy with yellow bands. 9.4 The Finish mark will be an orange stick buoy flying code flag F. 9.5 A New Mark, as provided in instruction 11, will be a orange cylindrical buoy with black bands. 10 THE START 10.1 Races will be started by using rule 26 with the warning signal made 3 minutes before the starting signal. 10.2 The starting line will be between a staff displaying an orange flag on the committee vessel at the starboard end and the course side of the port-end starting mark. 10.3 Boats whose warning signal has not been made shall avoid the starting area during the starting sequence for other races. 10.4 A boat starting later than 5 minutes after her starting signal will be scored Did Not Start without a hearing. This changes rule A4. 11 CHANGE OF THE NEXT LEG OF THE COURSE 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. 12 THE FINISH The finish line will be between a staff displaying an orange flag on the committee vessel and the course side of the starboard-end finishing mark. 13 PENALTY SYSTEM Rule 44.1 is changed so that the Two-Turns Penalty is replaced by the One-Turn Penalty. 2016 F18 & Viper Victorian Championships Sailing Instructions Page 2
14 TIME LIMITS Boats failing to finish within 20 minutes after the first boat of her class sails the course and finishes will be scored Did Not Finish without a hearing. This changes rules 35, A4 and A5. 15 PROTESTS AND REQUESTS FOR REDRESS 15.1 Protest forms are available at the race office. Protests and requests for redress or reopening shall be delivered there within the appropriate time limit. The protest time limit is 90 minutes after the last boat has finished the last race of the day or the race committee signals no more racing today, whichever is later. 15.2 Notices will be posted as soon as practical after the protest time limit to inform competitors of hearings in which they are parties or named as witnesses. 15.3 Notices of protests by the race committee or protest committee will be posted to inform boats under rule 61.1(b). 15.4 Breaches of instructions 10.4 and 14 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 protest committee so decides. The scoring abbreviation for a discretionary penalty imposed under this instruction will be DPI. 15.5 On the last scheduled day of racing a request for reopening a hearing shall be delivered; EITHER, within the protest time limit if the requesting party was informed of the decision on the previous day. OR, no later than 30 minutes after the requesting party was informed of the decision on that day. This changes Rule 66. 15.6 On the last scheduled day of racing a request for redress based on a protest committee decision shall be delivered no later than 30 minutes after the decision was posted. This changes rule 62.2. 16 SCORING 16.1 Twelve (12) races are scheduled of which four (4) races are required to be completed to constitute a series. 16.2 (a) When fewer than five races have been completed, a boat s series score will be the total of her race scores. (b) When from five to eight races have been completed, a boat s series score will be the total of her race scores excluding her worst score. (c) When nine or more races have been completed, a boat s series score will be the total of her race scores excluding her two worst scores. 17 SAFETY REGULATIONS 17.1 Signing on and off is an integral part of entering There will be sign on and sign off sheets for each sailing session in the yacht club. Information sheets are available to record a DNS, DNC, DNF, an executed penalty etc. 17.2 A boat that retires from a race shall notify the race committee as soon as possible. 2016 F18 & Viper Victorian Championships Sailing Instructions Page 3
18 REPLACEMENT OF CREW OR EQUIPMENT 18.1 Substitution of competitors will not be allowed without prior written approval of the Race Officer. 18.2 Substitution of damaged or lost equipment will not be allowed unless authorised by the Race Officer. Requests for substitution shall be made to the committee at the first reasonable opportunity. 19 ADVERTISING Boats may be required to display advertising chosen and supplied by the organising authority. 20 SUPPORT BOATS 20.1 Team leaders, coaches and other support personnel shall stay outside areas where boats are racing from the time of the preparatory signal for the first class to start until all boats have finished or retired or the race committee signals a postponement, general recall or abandonment. 20.2 Support boats shall clearly identify themselves with the Race Officer prior to entering the course area. 21 PRIZES Prizes will be given at the discretion of the Victorian Formula 18 Catamaran Association and the Australian F16 Association Committees. 22 RADIO COMMUNICATION Except in an emergency, a boat shall neither make radio transmissions while racing nor receive radio communications not available to all boats. This restriction also applies to mobile telephones. 23 DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY Competitors participate in the regatta entirely at their own risk. See Rule 4, Decision to Race. The organising 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. 24 INSURANCE Each participating boat shall be insured with valid third-party liability insurance with a minimum cover of $5,000,000 (recommended $10,000,000) per event or the equivalent. 2016 F18 & Viper Victorian Championships Sailing Instructions Page 4
Attachment 1 Windward-Leeward Wind Direction Wind Direction B A C s C p X Start Line S Committee Vessel F Finish Line Mark rounding order: Course 1 Course 2 Notes: Start - A B Gate(Cs, Cp) A B X - Finish Start - A B Gate(Cs, Cp) A B - Gate(Cs, Cp) A B X - Finish Courses will be indicated by displaying Numeral Pennant 1 or 2 on the committee vessel. Marks are to be left to PORT. Marks Cs and Cp form a Gate. If one of the gate marks is missing, boats shall leave the remaining mark to PORT. 2016 F18 & Viper Victorian Championships Sailing Instructions Page 5