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Welcome to Junior Race Week 2014!

Welcome to Junior Race Week 2014!. Introductions. JST Co-ordinator: Mark Osborn Race Officer: Josh Croft Safety Boat Co-ordinator: Mike Croft Club Bosun: Bob Hindmarsh. Today. Rota’s for parents: launching, signing on, beach, race office, safety boat crews

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Welcome to Junior Race Week 2014!

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  1. Welcome to Junior Race Week 2014!

  2. Introductions • JST Co-ordinator: Mark Osborn • Race Officer: Josh Croft • Safety Boat Co-ordinator: Mike Croft • Club Bosun: Bob Hindmarsh

  3. Today Rota’s for parents: launching, signing on, beach, race office, safety boat crews Could all parents please volunteer for a couple of duties, we rely on your support to run this week! Richard Beaman please stand up. Briefing and 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 • Speak to Mark if incorrect sail number or changed during week. • All boats must be insured for racing

  5. Club Boats • Please confirm your requirements for club boats • Rota to help get Pico’s down at 08:15 (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 • Anyone using a club boat (not Feva sailors) to be at the training room by 08:45 Monday morning to be allocated boats.

  6. Leaving Stonework's • Sign on from 0900 (VERY Important!) • Do not leave till Mark says so, you may launch. • 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 • Oppies 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. 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 B class 1015 O class Oppies

  9. 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.

  10. 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

  11. 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. • We want this week to be enjoyable for everyone no road hogs (aggressive sailing)

  12. Ferries • Keep clear of ferries and other commercial vessels at all costs, they can’t stop.

  13. 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)

  14. 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

  15. 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

  16. Rules • Port/ Starboard Rule

  17. 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)

  18. 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

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

  20. Race card

  21. RACING info • Courses are 2 laps • Except T class (Fevas) who go round each buoy 3 times, sausages, ignore the turning mark. • 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.

  22. 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….

  23. 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.

  24. 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

  25. 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

  26. Additional Safety Measures. • 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.

  27. Capsizes • No fun capsizes, as this distracts and occupies the safety boat crews from people who really need them. Mark’s RED CARD system will be applied.

  28. Entertainment • BBQ: 18:00 Friday on Harbour Quay. • Bring your own disposable BBQ and food • Prize giving • 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 prior to 0800 or 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 24th of August. • Fast handicap 1450 • Lasers 1500 • Slow handicap (PY 1150+) 1505 • Pico (double handers) 1510 • Pico (single handers) 1515 • Optimist/Oppies 1520

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