2017 RACING GUIDE NOTICE OF RACES BEVERLY YACHT CLUB 99 Water Street P.O. Box 181 Marion, MA 02738-0181 Phone: (508) 748-0540 Fax: (508) 748-0771 www.beverlyyachtclub.org FINAL 3.31.17 March 31, 2017 Dear BYC Racers, Beverly Yacht Club welcomes you to the 2017 racing season. We’re looking forward to building on the active and successful racing program that was established 145 years ago. Last year, the Race Committee directed more than 250 races from late spring to early fall. For 2017, we’ve added more racing with a Tuesday Twilight series for the Bullseye and H-12 fleets. Online registration will now be allowed up to the first signal of the first race of each series. Special Races have registration deadlines that are listed on the club calendar, BYC Racing Calendar and in this guide. We sponsor racing five days a week, and while we have superb on the water race direction with Paul Hyde, we depend on you to assist us to manage every race. Assistance with race management has been a requirement at BYC for many years and is a great way to meet racers in different fleets. BYC has a spirit of volunteerism and race management assistance is a great way to contribute to our club. Under the direction of Terry Watson, our Race Officer Captain, we will assign every racing sailboat captain at least one date when they are required to assist with race management on the Race Committee boat. Your assigned dates will not conflict with your primary racing dates, and your spouse or any adult BYC member may serve for you. Please see section 3.1 in this Racing Guide for requirements. Please become familiar with the changes to The Racing Rules of Sailing 2017-2020. New for 2017, US Sailing is offering an app to access the new rulebook. Finally, please review our Racing Safety Plan and the U.S. SAILING Safety Equipment Requirements (USSER). Thanks for participating and helping to make the 2017 racing season a successful and enjoyable one! Mark Verville Race Committee Chair 617.901.8301 (cell) [email protected] 2017 Racing Guide Table of Contents Page BYC Safety and Decision to Race 1 BYC 2017 Race Committee, Fleet Representatives, Protest Committee and Safety Committee 2 NOTICE OF RACES 1. Organizing Authority 3 2. Governing Rules 3 3. Eligibility and Entry 3 4. Inspection 4 5. Scoring 4 6. Protest Hearings 6 7. Prizes 7 8. Social Events 10 EVENT DESCRIPTIONS Tuesday Evening Women's Keelboat Racing Program 11 Tuesday Twilight Series 12 Wednesday Twilight Series 13 Thursday Ladies’ Series 14 Thursday Twilight Series 15 Saturday Series 16 Sunday Series 17 Sunday Fall Series 18 Racer-Cruiser Weekend Race 19 One Design Pursuit / Handicap Regatta 20 Parker Converse Tower Race 21 Herreshoff Pursuit / Handicap Regatta 22 Thayer Francis Moonlight Race 23 Van Rensselaer Memorial Trophy Race Day 24 Sou’wester Regatta 25 Singlehanded Championship 26 Championship of Champions 27 Hurricane Cup 29 Buzzards Bay Regatta 30 Beverly Yacht Club Junior Regatta 30 H Class Championship 30 US SAILING and Southern Mass Sailing Championships 30 Appendix A: Approximate Location of BYC Racing Marks 31 Appendix B: Racer-Cruiser Event Registration Form 32 BYC Safety and Decision to Race The Beverly Yacht Club’s goal is to run safe and fair races for participants. It is the responsibility of the race committee and Race Officer to adhere to the recommended safety protocols as reasonably as possible to ensure the highest degree of fairness and safety in all races. Sailing and racing involve inherent risks. Because the club cannot mitigate all risks we call your attention to a fundamental rule of sailing in Part 1 of the Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS). Rule 4 -- Decision to Race: The responsibility for a boat’s decision to participate in a race or to continue racing is hers alone. We ask that all participants respect the decisions of designated Race Officers and club officials, especially when these decisions are made with safety in mind. Judgment calls are part of racing and running races, and while participants will not always agree with some of the decisions, we ask that you remember that our race committee and other officials are volunteers. Volunteers and participants alike should be treated courteously and respectfully. This does not abridge any rights that are part of the RRS. As part of our Racing Safety Plan, all racing sailboats are required to monitor VHF Channel 72 and shall notify the RC if they retire from racing. All captains should be familiar with the BYC Safety Plan which is posted on the Race page of the BYC website. 1 BYC 2017 Race Committee Mark Verville, Chair Mary Levenson, Registrar and Scorer Terry Watson, Race Officer Captain Jed Hoffer, Special Races Stephen Dahill, Special Races Graham Quinn, Special Races Bob Shorter, General Manager, Ex Officio Fleet Representatives to the Race Committee Ed Tiffany and Kathy Reed Bullseye Deborah Elfers and Susan Vogler H-12 Jed Hoffer J/22 Joe Mozzone J/24 Niko Kotsatos J/80 Mark Lindquist J/105 Chris Collings Laser Jon Pope PHRF Cruising Mark Lindquist PHRF Racing Bill Berry Shields Nanna Buckley Women’s Keelboat Racing Program Phyllis Partridge Southern Mass Sailing Representative BYC 2017 Protest Committee Susan Mead, co-Chair Kym Lee, co-Chair BYC Safety Committee Deborah Elfers, Chair 2 NOTICE OF RACES 1 ORGANIZING AUTHORITY The Organizing Authority for the races described in this Racing Guide is the Beverly Yacht Club. 2 GOVERNING RULES All BYC races described in this Racing Guide will be governed by the current Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS) with US SAILING Prescriptions, including sections A and B of Appendix T, except as changed by this Racing Guide or the BYC Sailing Instructions. All competitors are reminded of the importance of compliance with RRS 67(c) in any BYC racing event. RRS rule 61.1(a)(2) will be changed as follows: 61.1(a)(2) is deleted for the Bullseye and H-12 Classes. H-Class Rule 87 - water Ballast and Weight Limit, the wording “and a crew shall be not less than two persons.” will be deleted. This Guide and the Racing Calendar is the Notice of Race required by the RRS. Please note that this Guide, the Racing Calendar and the Sailing Instructions are posted on the Race page of the BYC website. Changes to the Sailing Instructions will be posted on the Race Notice Board at BYC. Changes to the Sailing Instructions may also be posted on the Race Committee boat in which case they will also be announced by the Race Committee on VHF channel 72. The Racing Rules of Sailing are provided by US SAILING to all US SAILING members. The BYC Racing Guide is available on the Race page of the BYC website. One waterproof copy of the Sailing Instructions is available for each enrolled racing sailboat. Additional copies of the waterproof Sailing Instructions are available for purchase at the BYC Office. 3 ELIGIBILITY AND ENTRY BYC and non-BYC sailboats are eligible to participate in any event or series. Consult the race event description pages in this Guide to determine special eligibility requirements and entry requirements for a series or an individual race. H Class Rule 87, by Law II, Purpose 1 - will be changed to allow the Cape Cod Shipbuilding version of the H-12 to participate in the BYC Series and Special races. Register online on the Race page of the BYC website. Non-BYC sailboats will pay an entry fee at the time of registration. Registration for each monthly Summer Series must be completed online before the first signal of the first race of the series. Registration for Special Races must be completed online and by 1800 on July 5 for the Moonlight Race and the Herreshoff Pursuit/Handicap Regatta, 1800 on July 12 for the Tower Race, 1800 on July 26 for the Van Rensselaer Race, 1800 on August 23 for the Sou’wester Race, and 1800 on September 20 for the Hurricane Cup. Please note that the race event during Racer-Cruiser Weekend requires paper registration. Please see Appendix B for the registration form. A boat may not participate if it has not registered for a series or special race event by the registration deadline. 3.1 RACE OFFICER ASSISTANCE REQUIREMENT Each sailboat participating in any part of a racing series or the entire racing series is required to assist at least once with race management. The Race Committee will assign each participating boat a date to 3 provide a Race Officer Assistant to the on-the-water race committee. Assignments will not be made for races in which a boat is registered to race. A boat can meet its assistance requirement through its boat captain, his or her spouse or any adult BYC member. A race disqualification will be issued for failure to provide Race Officer Assistance on the assigned date. Race Officer Assistance is an eligibility requirement, and a race disqualification cannot be appealed to or modified by the Protest Committee. 3.2 HANDICAP SAILBOATS For 2017, Beverly Yacht Club will use the PHRF rating system and Time on Time (TOT) scoring for Series races. PHRF Time on Distance (TOD) scoring will be used for pursuit races, except for the Van Rensselaer Race, which will use the Van Rensselaer Rating Committee ratings. Every sailboat participating in PHRF races must have a current, valid PHRE NE rating certificate. New or renewal certificates can be acquired from PHRF New England – www.phrfne.org. For PHRF events, RRS 52 is amended as provided for under RRS 86.1(c) as follows: Competitors are permitted to use electrically-powered winches for running rigging while racing.