La Course de L'Alliance 2014

Information Attachment for Notice of Race

Contact:

Regatta website

Info: http://smyc.com/content/la-course-de-lalliance

Entry and results: http://regattaguru.com/cdla

Organising Authority
Sint Maarten Yacht Club (SMYC)

Email
smycevents@gmail.com

Telephone
+1 721 544 2079

Telephone
+1 721 581 5017

Schedule of events:

Date | Time | Where | What
Thur 27 Nov | 1500 | Marina Fort Louis | Registration until start of Skippers Briefing
Thur 27 Nov | 1800 | Marina Fort Louis | Skippers Briefing
Fri 28 Nov - Sun 30 Nov | See below | Racing
Sun 30 Nov | 1600 | SMYC | Prize-giving

Planned Schedule of races:

Date | Start | 1st Warning | Finish
Fri 28 - 1 race | Simpson Bay, St Maarten | not before 1015 | Gustavia, St Barths
Sat 29 - 1 race | Gustavia, St Barths | not before 0925 | Road Bay, Anguilla
Sun 30 - 1 race | Road Bay, Anguilla | not before 0925 | Simpson Bay, St Maarten

Classes:

CSA Monohull | Likely to be sub-divided into Racing and Cruising.
Multihull | Any multihull with a rating from multihullratings.com

Entering:

How | Regatta website, the SMYC office, or at Registration (see above)
How much | The entry fee is $160
When | Before start of Skippers Briefing (see schedule above)

Additional information:

Racing Rules of Sailing | http://www.sailing.org/documents/racingrules/index.php
CSA Safety Requirements | http://caribbean-sailing.com/csa-rule/safety-requirements/
CSA Measurement | http://caribbean-sailing.com/csa-rule/get-a-csa-rating-the-short-guide/
Multihull rating | multihullratings.com

La Course de L'Alliance

Organising Authority: Sint Maarten Yacht Club (SMYC)

Generic Notice of Race

Specific details in the the accompanying Information Attachment

1.RULES

1.1.The regatta is governed by the rules as defined in The Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS).

1.2.CSA Minimum Safety Requirements applies except that Requirement 2 does not apply to:

a) Multihull boats, or

b)any boat not originally designed with lifelines.

1.3.The Sailing Instructions may also change other rules.

2.ADVERTISING

2.1.Boats may be required to display advertising supplied by the organising authority.

3.ELIGIBILITY AND ENTRY

3.1.The regatta is open to all boats in the classes listed in the Information Attachment.

3.2.Boats may enter on the regatta website or by sending their entry form to the SMYC by fax, hand delivery or e-mail before the start of the Skippers Briefing.

4.FEES

4.1.See Information Attachment.

5.IDENTIFICATION

5.1.All boats shall provide their sail number or other identification at registration.

5.2.If bow numbers are issued by the Race Committee, a deposit as stated in the Information Attachment will be charged, payable at registration and refunded when numbers are returned within thirty days after the regatta.

6.SCHEDULE of EVENTS and RACING

6.1.See Information Attachment.

7.CLASSES AND RATINGS

7.1.Each entry in a CSA class must have a current and valid CSA rating certificate.

7.2.The Race Committee may at their discretion arrange a single-use rating for boats unable to obtain a CSA rating.

7.3.Each entry in the Multihull class must possess a Multihull rating from multihullratings.com.

8.SAILING INSTRUCTIONS

8.1.Sailing Instructions will be provided at registration and may be available on the regatta website.

9.THE COURSES

9.1.The intended courses are described in the Information Attachment.

9.2.Detailed courses and a list of marks will be available at registration and may be posted on the regatta website.

10.PENALTY SYSTEM

10.1.For all classes RRS 44.1 is changed so that the Two-Turns Penalty is replaced by the One-Turn Penalty.

10.2.The Protest Committee may, at its discretion, impose an alternative penalty in lieu of disqualification for any infringement, including safety requirements, with the exception of an infringement of the Racing Rules parts 1 and 2. This changes RRS 64.

11.SCORING

11.1.One race is required to be completed to constitute a series

11.2.A boat’s series score will be the total of her race scores. This changes RRS A2.

12.PRIZES

12.1.1st, 2nd and 3rd place prizes will be awarded in each class.

13.DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY

13.1.Competitors participate entirely at their own risk. See RRS 4, Decision to Race. The organising authority will not accept any liability for material damage or personal injury or death sustained in conjunction with or prior to, during, or after the regatta.

14.PHOTOGRAPHIC AND MEDIA RIGHTS

14.1.Competitors grant the Organising Authority the unrestricted right and permission to use the name and the image for any text, photograph or video footage of either themselves or the boat they are sailing during the event to be published or broadcast in any media whatsoever (including but not limited to press and TV advertisements or internet), for either editorial or advertising purposes or to be used in press information; in this respect, competitors names’ and any biographical material of themselves may also be used or reproduced in any way known.