| 1.0 | Rules
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| | the Regatta will be governed by the Racing Rules of Sailing 2025 - 2028 (the rules)
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| 2.0 | Notices to Competitors
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| | Notices to competitors will be posted on the official noticeboard at the clubhouse.
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| 3.0 | Changes to Sailing Instructions
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| | Any changes will be posted at least 15 minutes prior to the first warning signal of a racing session.
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| 4.0 | Signals Made Ashore
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| | Signals made ashore will be displayed at the tower or in a cone on the shore.
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| 5.0 | Schedule of Races
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| | Five races, each approximately 35 minutes, are scheduled.
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| | Sunday warning 1030 up to 5 races back-to-back
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| | A separate start may be accorded any class or division with six or more entrants
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| | On the water, instructions regarding race starts and courses may be given verbally.
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| | No warning signal shall be made after 1500
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| 6.0 | Courses and Marks
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| | Five orange bouys are permanently located in the N, E, S, SW, W 'corners' of the lake.
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| | Attachment MAP, and the blackboard at the clubhouse, show the lake, the marks, and possible courses.
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| | Triangular course: the most windward bouy will be mark#1.
mark#2 will be the adjacent bouy, either to port or starboard of mark#1.
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| | The course to be sailed will be notified prior to the warning signal,
by displaying a numeral pennant over a Red or Green shape denoting Port or Starboard hand
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| | The marks will be rounded in the following order:
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| | numeral '1' 1 - 3 -- 1 - 3 - fin
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| | numeral '2' 1 - 2 - 3 -- 1 - 2 - 3 - fin
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| | a port course will be favored - weather permitting
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| 7.0 | The Start
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| | Races will be started using rule 26 with a 3 minute sequence. (3,2,1,go)
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| | The warning signal for any succeeding class will be made not less than one minute after the starting signal of the preceeding class.
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| | For back-to-back races, the first warning signal of the next sequence of starts will occur
not less than three minutes after the finish of the previous races,
and will be preceeded by the display of the orange startline flag for at least two minutes.
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| | The start line shall be between an orange flag either on the committee boat or in a cone on the beach,
and a orange buoy, which may or may not be mark #3 of the course.
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| 8.0 | Change the Course
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| | The course of a race will not be changed during that race
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| 9.0 | Shorten the Course (additional to rule 32)
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| | On a leg of the course, a committee boat will make sounds and show ' S ' over ' 1 ',
meaning that the remaining course is to the NEXT mark, thence to the normal FINISH LINE.
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| 10.0 | The Finish Line (except when rule 32 is in effect)
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| | Between a cone on the beach displaying a blue flag and an orange buoy laid to the south or east.
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| 11.0 | Penalties (changeing rule 44.1)
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| | A One-Turn penalty is required for a breach of a Part-2 rule.
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| 12.0 | Time Limits (changeing rule 35)
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| | In any race, a starter that has not finished within 10 minutes of the first boat to finish, may be scored as DNF.
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| 13.0 | Protests
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| | Protests regarding an incident in a session shall be delivered to a race officer within 15 minutes of the last boat to finish the last race of that session.
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| | Arbitration 'in public' may be offered as an instructional method of resolving protests.
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| 14.0 | Scoring
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| | Appendix A will apply, with two races being completed to constitute the Championship.
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| | after three completed races, a boat's worst score may be dropped from her total.
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| 15.0 | Prizes
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| | Prizes will be allocated firstly to placegetters in 'standard' divisions:
(30+ 45+ 55+ 65+ 75+ Women), thence to 'winners' of a spot-prize procedure.
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| 16.0 | Disclaimer
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| | As per rule4, competitors participate in the regatta entirely at their own risk. The organizing authority cannot accept any liability for material damage or personal injury sustained in conjunction with the regatta.
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| Contacts
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| | John Dowsett . . m: 021 0292 4136 . . email
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| | Garth Briden . . m: 022 675 8207 . . email
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| | David Lowe . . . p: 09 480 6833 . . email
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| | print from a MS Word version of this document
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