Saturday 7 Sunday 8 May 2011 Organising Authority: Woollahra Sailing Club In conjunction with Yachting Australia SAILING INSTRUCTIONS
1. RULES 1.1 Racing will be governed by: The rules as defined in the Racing Rules of Sailing 2009-2012 Appendix D (Team Racing Rules) Yachting Australia Special Regulations Part 2; 5 Personal Floatation equipment The Notice of Race except as amended by these Sailing Instructions. 1.2 All races shall be umpired in accordance with Appendix D2.2. 1.3 No class rules shall apply. 1.4 Rule 29.1 is amended replacing, in line 7, four minutes with one minute. 2. NOTICES TO COMPETITORS 2.1 Notices to competitors will be posted on the Regatta Notice Board located on the ground floor of Woollahra Sailing Club (WSC). 2.2 Once a racing session has commenced Notices to Competitors will be posted on the information table of the change-over boat afloat. 3 CHANGES TO SAILING INSTRUCTIONS 3.1 Any written change to these Sailing Instructions will be posted at least 15 minutes before the start of any race affected. 3.2 Oral instructions may be given on the water by the Race Committee and/or the Umpires, prior to the warning signal, when Flag L is displayed. It will be the responsibility of each team to obtain any oral instructions given. 4 BOATS 4.1 Boats shall be provided for all competitors, who shall not modify them or cause them to be modified in any way except that fittings or equipment designed to be adjusted while racing may be adjusted. 4.2 All equipment intended to be in the boat for sailing purposes shall be in the boat while afloat. 4.3 The penalty for not complying with one of the instructions of this section will be disqualification from all races sailed in which the instruction was broken. 4.4 Competitors shall report any damage or loss of equipment, however slight, to the organising authority s representative immediately after securing the boat ashore. The penalty for breaking this instruction, unless the jury is satisfied that the competitor made a determined effort to comply, will be disqualification from the race most recently sailed in which that boat s team was successful. 5 SIGNALS MADE ASHORE 5.1 All signals made ashore will be displayed on the flag mast located on the centre of the WSC rigging area. 5.2 When displayed ashore flag AP means races not started are postponed. The first Warning Signal for the next race shall be made 20 minutes after the AP is lowered (amends race signal AP).
6 SCHEDULE OF EVENTS Day Date Time Event Friday 6 May 16:00 17:30 Early Registration 17:30 Welcome BBQ & Drinks Saturday 7 May 08:00 08:45 Registration 08:45 09:00 Competitor Briefing 09:30 Warning Signal for first race 18:00 Post-race BBQ Sunday 8 May 07:30 Daily Sailing Instructions Posted 08:00 Competitor Briefing 08:30 Warning signal for first Race ASAP after racing Post-race BBQ 18:00 Presentation & Closing **This schedule changes the Notice of Race. 7 REGATTA FORMAT 7.1 A draw will be made on Friday 6 May, scrutinized by the Chief Umpire, for the order teams will be entered into a modified Swiss League, details of which are in Appendix 1. 7.2 On Sunday 8 May a new round of the Swiss League will not be started after 12:30 and a new race will not be started after 13:30. 7.3 The best placed teams will qualify for the finals which will be a knock-out competition. Quarter finals will be (best of three races) 1 v 8 (A), 2 v 7 (B), 3 v 6 (C), 4 v 5 (D). The semi finals will be (best of three) A v D and B v C. The final (best of five races) will be sailed in blue and red boats with allocation by a draw. Teams will not swap boats. 7.4 The race committee may change the format as required in the prevailing conditions to achieve a winner. Such changes may include, but not be limited to, commencing finals earlier and/or proceeding straight to semi finals from the Swiss League. 8 RACING AREA The racing area will be on the waters of Rose Bay.
9 COURSE 9.1 The course shall be a starboard hand S course, unless changed by the Race Committee. Finish - - - - - - - - - - 1 2 - - - - - - - - - - - 3 4 Start 9.2 The Race Committee may move marks of the course at any time. Rule 33 will not apply. The moving of a mark by the Race Committee will not give grounds for redress. 10 MARKS 10.1 Marks 1, 2, 3 and 4 will be yellow inflatable buoys. 10.2 The Start Mark will be a white inflatable buoy. 10.3 The Finish Mark will be a blue inflatable buoy. 11 THE START 11.1 The race number of the next race to start will be signalled on a board located on the stern of the Committee Boat. 11.2 The Starting line will be between an orange flag on the Committee Boat at the starboard end and the port end starting mark 11.3 Races will be started by using the Sound Signal Starting system, detailed in Appendix 2. This changes RRS 26 and Race Signals. 11.4 A boat starting later than 2 minutes after her starting signal shall be scored Did Not Start. This changes Rules 63.1, A4 and A5. 12 RECALLS 12.1 Recalls shall be signalled in accordance with RRS 29, except that flag X shall be displayed for no more than one minute. 12.2 The start boat will attempt to call out the numbers of any boats OCS. Failure to hear the call shall not be grounds for redress.
13 TIME LIMIT AND ABANDONMENT 13.1 If no boat has finished within 20 minutes of the start the race will be abandoned. 13.2 Boats not finishing within five minutes of the first boat will be scored DNF. This changes Rule 35. 13.3 Abandonment may be signalled orally by the Race Committee and/or the Umpires. Abandoned races may be resailed and if so, a new warning signal will be made as soon as practical. This changes Rule 32 and Race Signals. 14 THE FINISH The finishing line will be between the pole displaying a blue flag on the Finish Boat at the starboard end and the port end finishing mark. 15 PROTESTS AND REQUESTS FOR REDRESS 15.1 Rule D2.4 applies to all protests and requests for redress. 15.2 For protests and requests for redress other than protests under a rule listed in Rule D2.2(a), competitors shall inform an Umpire or the Race Committee prior to rotating boats or going ashore. 15.3 For hearings involving breakdowns, Rule D5 is changed to replace Race Committee with Umpires. 15.4 The first sentence of Rule D2.4(c) is changed to read: There shall be no request for redress or an appeal by a boat from a decision made under Rules D2, D5 (as changed by these sailing instructions), and any action or non-action by an Umpire. 15.5 Instructions 20, 22 and 23 are not competitor protestable. 19 OFFICIAL BOATS Umpire s boats will be identified by a flag with a black letter J. 20 SAFETY REGULATIONS All competitors are to sign on before going afloat for the first racing session of the day, and are to sign off when proceeding ashore at the end of their racing day 21 BREAKDOWNS As per Appendix D5 (as amended by SI15.3) except that in D5.1 red flag is replaced by green flag. 22. SUPPORT BOATS AND COACHES/MANAGERS Team coach and support boats are to remain, from the first Warning Signal of the day until the last boat finishes the last race of the day, outside of the area bounded by the Start, Mark 1, the Finish and Mark 4 and at all other time at least 50m from boats racing. 23 RUBBISH No rubbish is to be dumped into the harbour. All empty water bottles, lunch containers or refuse of any kind are to be taken ashore for disposal.
Appendix 1 Computer-generated Swiss League 1. Rounds will be a computer-generated Swiss League programme. 2. A draw will determine the first round. 3. The second round will be, using the order of the original draw, the first winner against the second winner and so on except the first loser will sail the last loser or the last winner. 4. Rounds will then be scheduled at the conclusion of a round for the next round but one by ordering the teams, using the tie-breakers below, and then matching them, as far as possible, in order of their places (the first team will sail the second team and so on) except that, on Day One of the regatta, teams will not be matched if they have met within four (4) rounds of the round being scheduled. On Day Two, teams will not be matched if they have met within two (2) rounds of the round being scheduled 5. If the final round cannot be completed its results will be ignored. 6. Races that cannot be sailed in order or for which results are not entered or complete will be ignored for scheduling purposes. Subsequently corrected or altered results will not affect a published schedule. 7. Resails will be sailed at the end of the next available round. Race committee decisions on resails will be final, this changes Rule 60.1 (b). Tie-breakers Rule D4.3 is deleted and replaced with Ties will be broken, in order of precedence, in favour of the team(s) that has: 1. if the tie is between two teams only, won the last race between them. 2. sailed more races against teams that have a higher place. 3. sailed fewer races against teams that have a lower place. 4. the lowest sum of the places of the teams the tied teams have beaten. 5. the lowest sum of the places of the teams to which the tied teams have lost. 6. beaten the highest-placed team the tied teams have individually beaten. 7. not been beaten by the lowest-placed team to which the tied teams have individually lost. Step 1 will be applied whenever a step leaves a tie between two teams. Steps 2 to 7 will be repeated until no more ties can be broken when remaining ties will be broken: 8. by the draw for the first round; ties in odd-numbered rounds will use the draw, ties in evennumbered rounds will use the draw inverted.
Appendix 2 Sound Starting System The sound starting system as described in this appendix shall apply to the regatta. 1. Course and postponement signals may be made orally, and may be relayed to competitors by Umpires. 2. Audible signals shall govern, even when supplemental visual signals are also used. 3. The starting sequence shall consist of the following sound signals made at the indicated times: Signal Sound Time before start Warning 3 long 3 minutes Preparatory 2 long 2 minutes 1 long, 3 short 1 minutes, 30 seconds 1 long 1 minutes 3 short 30 seconds 2 short 20 seconds 1 short 10 seconds 1 short 5 seconds 1 short 4 seconds 1 short 3 seconds 1 short 2 seconds 1 short 1 second Start 1 long 0 4. Signals shall be timed from their commencement. 5. A series of short signals may be made before the sequence begins in order to attract attention. This will be 10 short sounds 20 seconds before the Warning. 6. Failure of a competitor to hear an adequate course, postponement, starting sequence or recall signal shall not be grounds for redress.