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2. The Race Committee shall run the races, providing circulars, establishing courses,
starting the races, recording the order and times of finishing, etc. It will welcome
suggestions on these matters from the Judges.
3. No race shall be started unless in the judgment of the Race Committee there is sufficient
wind (preferably at least 5 knots), and no race shall be started after 5 PM.
12. SCORING:
A. A contestant starting in any race of the Championship Regatta is an entry in the series.
B. Points will be awarded as using the low point system as described by Appendix A of
RRS.
C. Boats failing to finish within 30 minutes after the first boat finishes or within the time limit,
whichever is later will be scored as TLE. TLE's will be scored points equal to one-half the
number of yachts not finishing, rounded to the next highest number, plus the number of
yachts that finished. [I.e. if there are 40 boats in the fleet and only 13 finish; the score for
each of the 27 TLE yachts would be (27/2) = 14+13 (the number of finishers) = 27. Each
TLE yacht gets 27 points.]
D. With advice and consent of the Governing Committee, the Championship Committee
may provide for a throw-out race in the Regatta, but this shall only be permitted where at
least five races are completed.
E. The winner of the Championship Regatta will be the contestant with the lowest total point
score.
F. In case of a tie, the tie breaking method as published in the current racing rules of sailing
as distributed by the Governing Body of sailing for the United States, shall be used to break
the tie.
13. TIME LIMIT:
A race in which no contestant shall have finished in 2.5 hours shall be abandoned.
14. GENERAL RULES:
A. Team tactics are barred and shall be grounds for protest or disqualification. An example
of team tactics is the act of deliberately and willfully sacrificing one's chances or place in a
race for the purpose of injuring or improving the chances or place of another or others.
B. Breakdown points will be awarded an entrant on the basis of average points per race,
when the entrant has been forced out of a race or otherwise substantially disadvantaged
by:
1. Damage caused by a foul and later upheld by a sustained protest; or,
2. Gear failure attributable to poor condition of a borrowed boat.
C. The Judges will conduct a redress hearing in accordance to Rule 62 of the RRS upon
receiving a proper request from the claimant, Race Committee or by themselves as a
finding through a protest hearing. In any case it must be properly submitted. They shall
have discretion to decide whether the damage or gear failure is sufficient to have forced the
entrant out of the race or to have otherwise substantially disadvantaged the entrant.
D Notices when posted by the Race Committee on the host yacht club bulletin board shall
be considered to have been delivered to each contestant provided, however, that such
instructions may be superseded by oral instructions of the Race Committee on the water
duly given by it to each contestant prior to the warning signal.
E. No yacht entered for the Championship Regatta may be hauled out or laid on shore
during the period of the races, except in case of accident or for necessary repairs and then
only by permission of the Judges.
15. AMENDMENTS TO CHAMPIONSHIP RULES: Rules for the conduct of the
Championship Regatta can be amended by five affirmative votes of the Governing
Committee.

Revised February 9, 2013 DNF to TLE, Feb. 8, 2014 Eligibility, Jan 19, 2019 Number of
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