Regattas

Yr 2005 SAIL Regatta Schedule

The following is the schedule for the 2005 sailing season. Items in grey are as yet unconfirmed. Once the host organization has confirmed the dates the regatta entry will turn to black. As NOR's and SI's come available they will be linked here.

Items in yellow are SAIL tour events. Legend K =Keelboat Tour; D= Dinghy Tour; M=Multihull Tour; J= Junior Tour

1. The regattas comprising each tour shall be determined and published before the tours begin. The inclusion of regattas may be changed during the season provided that changes are published at least a week prior to the regatta(s) affected by the changes. Check www.rmsail.org before committing.

2. Members of SAIL are eligible to compete for the tour awards and are considered entered upon joining/renewing. Teams that race with different skippers/boats must inform the tour administrator, prior to October 1, 2005, of their circumstances and team name to be scored as a team. All skippers must be members of SAIL Boats racing in PHRF fleets must have valid SAIL PHRF certificates.

3. Each tour will be scored using the Cox-Sprague scoring system as published by U.S.Sailing.

4. Points will be determined by final places as scored by the event race committees, except that point ties will be scored as ties in the tour scoring and will not be broken.

5. The “Starters” referred to in the Cox-Sprague scoring system shall be the number of distinct boats that finished any race of the regatta.

6. Skippers/teams will be scored on their best 6 finishes for keelboats or 5 finishes for dinghies. In the event that fewer than two skippers have that number of finishes, the number of finishes scored will be reduced to the greatest number of finishes performed by at least two skippers.

7. Competitors who forgo racing a tour event to serve as on-the-water race committee for that event or to compete in regional or above class championships or USSailing ladder events, will be scored their average points-earned and points-possible for their best N-2 finishes, where N is the number of finishes scored for that tour. Fractions will be rounded up. This condition may only be used once per tour. It is the responsibility of competitors to acquaint the tour administrator of their circumstances prior to October 1, 2005.

If the tied skippers/teams have raced head-to-head (i.e. in the same division/fleet of the same regatta), then the skipper/team scoring better than the other the greater number of times.