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IS CONTINUOUSLY SEEKING PRE-OWNED YACHT LISTINGS GIVE US A CALL SO WE CAN DISCUSS THE SALE OF YOUR BOAT www.Hilllowden.com 6 Cliff Street, Marblehead, MA 01945 Phone: 781-631-3313 Fax: 781-631-3533 Table of Contents 2012 __________________________________________________________ INFORMATION Letter to Skippers ……………………………………………………………. 2 Officers and Executive Committee ……………………….……….............. 4 Sailing Delegates ………………..…………………………..………………. 5 Event Sponsoring Organizations ………..……………..……….................. 6 General Sailing Instructions ………………….….…………………………. 9 Season Scoring System & Class Splits ……..……..…………….……….. 15 Standard Courses …………………..…….…………….……….................. 16 Standard Rounding Marks ………………………….………………………. 18 Junior Events ………………………….……………………………….…….. 20 Marblehead Racing Association Events ………...…..………….…............ 22 One-Design Events ………...………………….………………….…............ 24 SEASON LONG SERIES Season Championship …………….……..…………….……………………. 25 Pursuit Race Championship ……………..…….…………...………………. 26 Salem Bay PHRF Grand Slam Series …………………………………….. 27 North Shore Ocean Race Series …………......……..…………………….. 28 PHRF Marblehead Series …………......……………..…………………….. 29 Cape Ann Magic Cup Series ……..…………………..…………………….. 30 J105 Mass Bay Championship Series ……………..……………………… 31 BYC Wednesday Evening Races ………………………………………….. 32 Constitution YC Wednesday Evening Races …………………………….. 34 CPYC Wednesday Evening Races …………………….………………….. 36 JYC Thursday Night Racing …………….………….……………………….. 37 OFFSHORE EVENTS Offshore Racing Schedule ………………………………..…………………. 38 BYC Memorial Day Weekend Regatta ………...………………………….. 39 EYC Lambert Ocean Race …………………………………........................ 40 Constitution YC Spring Regatta ……………..….………………………….. 41 CYC Summerset Regatta …………………….…………………………….. 42 HBPHRF Solstice Regatta ……………………………….…..…………….. 43 EYC Hospice of the North Shore Regatta ……….….…………………….. 44 SHYC Chapman Bowl ……………………………………………….………. 45 AYC & EPYC Cape Ann Challenge ……………….……………….………. 46 CPYC Constitution Cup …………………………….……………………….. 47 MYC Patton Bowl Regatta ……………...………….……………………….. 48 Constitution YC June Moon Chase Race ………………………….………. 49 JYC Phil Small Race ………………………..…..…………………………… 50 EYC Annual Regatta ………………………..……………………………….. 51 IBYC Annual Chowder Cup ………………………………………….………. 52 HBPHRF Scorpion Bowl ………………….…...……………....................... 53 MYC S.S. Crocker Memorial Race ……………..………………………….. 54 CYC Mid Summer Ocean Race ……………….…..……………………….. 55 BYC Beringer Bowl Overnight Race ……………..…………………..……. 56 SBYC Cruising Class Ocean Race …………..…..……..…………………. 58 Cruise for Life ………………………………..…..…………………………… 59 Scituate Sailing Scituate Invitational …………….……...…………………. 60 PCYC Bowditch Race ………………………….……………………………. 61 CPYC Make-A-Wish Regatta ………………..………….…….................... 62 CYC Panerai Classic Yacht Regatta ………..….………………………….. 63 Flip Flop Regatta ……………………………….……….…………………… 64 EPYC Gloucester Ocean Pursuit Race …………….…..…….……………. 65 Hingham YC Hitchcock Regatta ………..………….…….….……………… 66 CPYC JFK Regatta …………………………….…………………………….. 67 PHRF New England Championship Regatta …….......…………………… 68 EPYC Mayors Cup ……………………...………….…….…….................... 69 BYC Chowder Challenge/MARE Benefit Race …....……………………… 70 JYC Regatta ………………………………………….………….…………… 71 Hull YC Great Chase Race ………………..……..….……………………… 72 AYC The Great Race ……………………………….……..………………… 73 Constitution YC Fall Regatta ……………………...………………………... 74 BYC James R. Hodder Regatta ……………….…………………………… 75 HBPHRF Chowder Cup ………………….………..…………..................... 76 MYC Fall Series ………………………….…….…..………………………… 77 Boston Harbor Islands Regatta ………..…..…..………………………...… 78 BYC Marblehead Chowder Cup Challenge ………….…….……………… 79 Offshore Racing Schedule ………………………………..…………………. 81 APPENDIX US SAILING Judges - Massachusetts …………………………………..… 82 Tides ………………..………………………….…....………………………… 84 PHRF Ratings Valid List ………………………….…………………………. 86 Mass Bay Race Entry Forms …………………….…………………….…... 93 1 WELCOME! April 2012 Hello Racers! Welcome to the 2012 Mass Bay Sailing Yearbook. The Yearbook is designed to be a reference guide to both Offshore sailing as well as One Design. Included in the book are individual Event Sailing Instructions, General Sailing Instructions, course descriptions and a wealth of other information. First of all, thanks to all of the racers (owners and crew) for a really great 2012 season. And Congratulations to the following skippers who competed in the 2012 Mass Bay Sailing Championship events and won their respective classes: Class A - Merriman Trophy - INDRA - Tom Linkas Class B - President’s Trophy - SUPERSTITION - Steve Spangler & Chris Zibailo Class C - Duplin Trophy - WHARF RAT - RJ DiMattia Class D - PHRF Trophy - TANK - Joshua Vogel & Ryan Murphy Class F - Doyle Trophy - SUMMERIN - Jody Graul Class G - Eclipse Trophy - FACET - Tom Tetrault J105 - NE Ocean Racing Trophy - STEELAWAY III - Doug & Peter Morgan Pursuit Spinnaker - Bradford Trophy - SUPERSTITION - Steve Spangler & Chris Zibailo Pursuit Jib&Main - Graul Trophy - CHARISMA - Richard Tubman Rookie of the Year - IL CATIVO - Pat Cerandolo Competitor(s) of the Year - KATABATIC & SCHERHERAZADE Gordon Hall - Hugh & Betsy Chandler Club of the Year - EASTERN YACHT CLUB Distinguished Service to Sailing - Walter Murphy There are a number of VERY IMPORTANT CHANGES for 2012 that we hope will lead to better competition and more racers out on the water. Highlights include: Comments from last year We made several changes last year that we feel were well received and made the season better. For this reason we will be leaving them unchanged and in place. They include: - The classes and class splits - unchanged - The use of the Mass Bay Season Scoring System (CHIPS) – unchanged - The elimination of the travel requirement for classes D & G – unchanged - The separation of the Spinnaker and the Jib&Main classes in the Pursuit Series - unchanged New Web Site We have completely updated our web site! Please go to www.massbaysailing.org and check it out. We hope that you will find it much easier to find the things that are important to you as well as much easier to navigate to others. We have added some new features and refined others. There is now a very clear News section, a new Calendar, a new Blog area and best of all a new Events area that ties in with our new Event Registration and Scoring System (ERSS). New Event Registration and Scoring System (ERSS) We are introducing this new system in order to make life as easy as possible for the competitor entering events. This is browser based so you can use it from your desktop, laptop, iPad or smartphone. You will find a link on our web site that takes you directly to a calendar of all the offshore events. This calendar can be filtered to show you just what you are interested in seeing. From this calendar you can select an event to register for. It takes you directly to that events site/page and lets you register and pay right there and then. There are a number of additional benefits that happen after you do this the first time. On subsequent registrations you will notice that all of your information will autofill making the process much faster. You can also register for multiple events at the same time and pay with one payment as well saving even more of your precious time. The new system will then post real time scratch sheets for you to reference. Once the event is done the results can be posted by the Race Committee in real time. These 2 are just a few of the very extensive benefits of this new system. We hope that you take advantage of it and enjoy using it for the events that allow it. Minor changes to the General Sailing Instructions There were a few minor changes to the General Sailing Instructions. To make it easier to find, they are now highlighted by a bounding box. Please be sure to read them in their entirety so you can be certain to understand all of the basic rules governing our racing. Membership deadline for Season Championships We have established a membership deadline of August 15th in order to qualify for the Season Championships. Please be sure that you have become a current member by then so that you can get a big shiny trophy at the end of the season! New Crew membership category added We have added the ability of the skipper when they are registering their membership to add as many crew members as they choose. If they do this at that time it will only cost $5 for each crew. This will put the crew onto our email blast mailing list giving them the ability to receive all the benefits of Individual membership at a $10 discount. Please consider getting their permission first and then adding them onto the list. Expanded Jib & Main Pursuit Championship The Pursuit Championship has been expanded from six to eight races. The two new races are the Constitution Yacht Club’s June Moon Chase Race and the Eastern Point Yacht Club’s Gloucester Ocean Pursuit Race. Qualification for the