4. RULES
4.1 The regatta will be governed by
The Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS)
2005-2008, the
Prescriptions of US SAILING, one-design class rules (if
applicable), HIYC-PHRF Rules
(for handicap classes), this Notice, the Sailing Instructions and any posted
modifications on race day. The official notice board will be the windows
next to the fireplace of the HIYC clubhouse.
4.2
Changes
to the following RRS sections will be made for this regatta:
29.1 (Recalls),35 (Time Limit), 46 (Membership), 61.1(a) (Protest
Notice), 62.1(a) (Redress), A2 (Scoring), A4.1 (Scoring).
The changes will appear in full in the Sailing Instructions or the
Notice of Race. This notice is given to satisfy J1.2.1.
5. ELIGIBILITY AND ENTRY
5.1 The
regatta will be open to dinghy boats properly registered with HIYC (RRS 46
will not apply). Participants may enter the race by completing registration
at the table in the HIYC clubhouse before the skippers' meeting.
6. CLASSES
6.1 Four boats of the same kind will constitute a class.
6.2 Handicap classes will be comprised of all other
entries and will compete under the DIYRA/US Sailing Portsmouth Number System
using wind-range (Beaufort number) specific values.
6.3 The Regatta Committee may combine or split classes
at its sole discretion.
7. FEES
7.1 The Regatta registration fee is $25.00
8. SCHEDULE
Saturday, October 15
0800 Registration, Coffee, and Donuts
0900 Skippers' Meeting
1025 Warning Signal for First Race
Sunday, October 16
0830 Coffee and Donuts
0955 Warning Signal for First Race
9. LAUNCHING
9.1 Launching, docking, and hauling may be done at Harbor Island Yacht Club
free of charge.
10. RACING
10.1 The Race Committee will place buoys on the
course.
One race will constitute a series
10.2 As many as seven races will be sailed.
10.3 No race will be
started in less than three (3) knots of sustained wind as determined by the
Race Committee.
10.4 No races will be started after 1300 on Sunday.
11. THE SITE, RACING AREA, AND COURSE
11.1
Harbor Island Yacht Club will be the site of all shore-side activities.
11.2 The
racing area is generally between mile 222 and mile 227,
Old Hickory Lake on the Cumberland River. The
location of the racing area will depend on the wind direction and velocity.
Three racing areas are available.
11.2.1 The "Upper Course"
is approximately one mile northeast of the harbor entrance, below Lindsley's
Light.
11.2.2 The "Lower Course"
is just west of the harbor entrance, between the mouth of Shute's Branch and
the mouth of Drake's Creek.
11.2.3 The “Harbor
Course” is inside the harbor, north of HIYC
11.3 Race courses set outside the harbor on Old
Hickory Lake may intersect the navigational channel. Commercial traffic
(barges) and deep-draft craft in the channel have right-of-way over
sailboats and must be treated with utmost respect. When a boat sailing under
these rules meets a vessel that is not, the rules of Part 2 (When Boats
Meet) are replaced by the government right-of-way rules. An alleged breach
shall be grounds for a protest by the race committee or the protest
committee. FAIR WARNING: A barge visibly powering down as it approaches a
sailboat shall automatically trigger a protest of that sailboat by the Race
Committee.
11.4 The course will be a buoy course and will be
further described in the Sailing Instructions.
12. ALTERNATE PENALTY
12.1 A boat that may have infringed a rule of Part
2 while racing under spinnaker may exonerate herself by dousing her
spinnaker (bringing the head of the spinnaker to a point below the level of
the gooseneck), making a 360 degree turn including a tack and a gybe, and
then resetting her spinnaker. This changes RRS 44.2.
13. SCORING
13.1 The Low Point System of RRS Appendix A will
apply. All races will be scored (no throw-out). This changes rule A2.
13.2 Wind dependent HIYC-PHRF handicaps and
Time-on-Time adjustment factors will be used. Time Correction Formula (TCF)
= 700/(f+PHRF) where f = 650 for light air, 550 for moderate air, and 450
for heavy air as assessed by the Regatta Chair.
14. PRIZES
14.1 Trophies will be awarded for all classes to the top
three (3) finishers.
15. DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY
15.1 Competitors in this event are participating
entirely at their own risk. See RRS 4, Decision to Race. Competitors agree
that the race organizers (organizing authority, race committee, protest
committee, host club, sponsors, or any other organization or official) will
not be responsible for damage to any boat or other property or the injury to
any competitor, including death, sustained as a result of participation in
this event. As an inducement to the race organizers to produce the regatta,
each competitor agrees that by participating in this event each competitor
is deemed to have waived all claims against and released the race organizers
from any and all liability associated with such competitor’s participation
in this event to the fullest extent permitted by law and is deemed to have
warranted to the race organizers that he has obtained this same release of
the race organizers by each member of his crew.
16. INSURANCE
16.1 Each competitor agrees that by participating
in this event each competitor is deemed to have warranted to the race
organizers that his or her participating boat is insured with valid
third-party liability insurance in an amount at least three times the value
of his or her participating boat.
17. FURTHER
INFORMATION
17.1 For further information, please contact Ken
Templemeyer at 615 847-9318 or send Ken
email.
18. SAILING INSTRUCTIONS
18.1 The sailing instructions will be distributed during
registration and will be available at the skippers. They are also
available online here.
