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Welcome to Junior Race Week 2015!

Welcome to Junior Race Week 2015! Get introduced to key coordinators, essential guidelines, race procedures, courses, and more. Parents are requested to volunteer for crucial duties. Follow detailed instructions to ensure a successful and safe racing experience.

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Welcome to Junior Race Week 2015!

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  1. Welcome to Junior Race Week 2015!

  2. Introductions • Race Week Co-ordinator: Mark Osborn • Race Officer: Josh Croft • Safety Boat Co-ordinator: Mike Croft • Training Manager and Bosun: Bob Hindmarsh

  3. Today Could all parents please volunteer for a couple of duties, we rely on your support to run this week! Rota’s for parents: signing on/off, beachmaster, race office, safety boat crews Briefing and on water training for rescue boat crews: going on this afternoon: Stoneworks quay at 13:45. All safety helms and crew to attend.

  4. All Boats. Must have clearly legible sail numbers • Label your launching trolley • All boats must be insured for racing (check particularly if borrowing a boat

  5. Club Boats • Please confirm your requirements for club boats after this briefing, or if you need a crew • Rota to help get Pico’s down at 08:00 (parents whose children are using club boats) • Please treat with great care. Pack away carefully. Adults only to take down Pico masts and to lift boats on/off racks • Feva’s have been allocated. Check sail number

  6. Leaving Stonework's • Sign on from 0900 (VERY Important!) • Launch by classes when instructed to do so • Parents decision whether to race • Take care on the slipways • No running/ playing on the quay

  7. Racing • Two races back to back • Stay on the water between races • H10s can go to their mothership • Keep clear of finish line once you have finished, stay between moorings and summers beach, DON’T go over the line again.

  8. Start Line • Transit of Post on clubhouse and sailing club flagpole on the quay • Outer distance and yellow cone give an indication of where the line is. Ignore the Club inner distance mark and blue Jubilee turning mark.

  9. Pre-Start • Prior to your 5 minute gun keep 20m back from start line i.e. between beach and moored boats • No go area between Club Inner Distance Mark and Quay • Fairway for ferries along Castle/Tavern beach shore, keep outside line from ferry mooring to Tavern buoy

  10. Starts • The start sequence will commence as close to 09:50 as possible • 10 minute gun: class letter and course displayed (on Sailing Club Balcony) • 5 minute gun: preparatory signal (blue peter) • 0 minutes: start (round the ends rule applies)

  11. Class Letters and Start Sequence 0950 Warning Signal 0955 Preparatory signal 1000 T class RS Feva 1005 A class Handicap (single handed Picos, RS Teras,Toppers Laser 4.7, Race Optmists) 1010 Bclass double handed Picos 1015 Oclass Start racing H10’s (possibly at Place)

  12. Recalls • Individual: Second sound signal and orange flashing light. Boats that are over the line must go around one end of the line and restart • General: Second and third sound signal and green flashing light whole class will restart 5 minutes after last class

  13. Courses • At warning signal class letter and buoy numbers will be displayed • Location of buoys on your race card • Class board green = marks to starboard • Class letter red = marks to port

  14. Race card

  15. T class (Fevas) go round each buoy 3 times, windward-leeward /sausages, ignore the turning mark. • Everyone else courses are 2 laps • Turning mark is an orange cone slightly to seaward of the start line. • If your course is to starboard, leave the turning mark to starboard and vice-versa. • Ignore the club turning mark.

  16. Postponement • AP board (red and white striped) • First warning signal 1 minute after AP flag /board removed • If fleet kept ashore 20 minutes to get to start line

  17. Shortened course • For Fevas will be indicated by flag S flown on a rib at a mark. Go straight to the finish after rounding this mark • For others Indicated by sound signal and orange flashing light on Sailing club balcony.Finish after one lap if your class flag displayed

  18. Cancellation • Flag N over flag A (all classes) or appropriate class flag,

  19. Finish Line • Same as the start line but crossed in the opposite direction • Sheet in mainsail on downwind finishes so Race Office can read your sail number or you won’t be given a result….

  20. Retirement • Tell a Safety boat and then go to Summers Beach. • Between races if it is windy you may go back to Stoneworks Quay if you have permission from Safety Control.

  21. Signing Off • Everyone must sign off IN PERSON at Stoneworks Quay when they have finished racing (including people who have retired) • You may leave private boats on Summers Beach if you wish, but you must still walk round to Stoneworks to sign off

  22. Rules • Port/ Starboard Rule

  23. Rules Cont... • If you break a rule take a penalty, only a 360 (one tack, one gybe)- the Jurors will be watching! • Respect for other competitors (no bad language) • Respect of property (no collisions)

  24. On the water judging… • The referee’s (Mark Osborn) decision is absolute. • On the water Jurors will be Mike Croft and Bob Hindmarsh. • Mark will issue yellow cards as a warning 2 yellows = RED and DISQUALIFICATION. • Yellow card to be displayed on boat. • Ethos of week introduction to racing.More experinced racers to show tolerance on water and not be bullies!

  25. Ferries • Keep clear of ferries and other commercial vessels at all costs, they can’t stop. Look before you tack particularly for Place ferry on Start line

  26. Emergency Situations/ Abandonment • 5 horns/whistles: await instructions from Safety Boats • Sign in immediately • Yellow/Black tape: -Marks abandoned boats • Never get in an abandoned boat without removing the tape first

  27. Safety is of paramount importance • No fun capsizes.Can lead to inversion and entrapment which is dangerous and potentially fatal.Don’t hold onto gunwhale but drop into water and swim to transom • All children in Picos, Q’bas, Teras and Fevas need to be able to DERIG AFLOAT • Sail to BAIL OUT area when told to by safety boats.

  28. Entertainment • Lowri Monday? • Wednesday Shannon’s talk in SC • Prize giving and BBQ Friday 1800 harbour quay.Bring your own bar-b-q and food! • Supper available in the club throughout the week

  29. Falmouth Dinghy Week. • Starts at 1400 in the Carick Roads. • Could the afternoon racers get their boats out of the way off Stoneworks and on the Beach mid morning, otherwise you’ll have to wait until all the morning racers are ashore.

  30. Any Questions

  31. Happy Sailing! • Pico sailors please remember to take your masts down by end of August. • No washing down of boats after morning sailing during JRW. • Trolleys must be left in their quay spaces.

  32. Percuil Regatta Sunday 30th of August. • Fast handicap 1605 • Lasers 1615 • Slow handicap (PY 1150+) 1620 • Pico (double handers) 1625 • Pico (single handers) 1630 • Optimist/Oppies 1635

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