St Mawes Sailing Club: Club Racing

St Mawes Sailing Club
No 1 The Quay, St Mawes, Truro, TR2 5DG

Club Racing

Current Location: St Mawes SC > Sailing > Racing

Full details of Club Racing (Sundays and Thursdays) and Pursuit Races as well as Sunday Special Events and the Short Series for Sunbeams and Working Boats can be found below:

Downloads

Notice of Race & Sailing Instructions

Entry Form

Race Card

Racing Information

(As shown on this page.)

Club Racing Photo Quicklinks
Rules Governing Races
Sailing Instructions
Entry Forms
Pursuit Races
Points Series Races
Sunday Special Events
Short Series (Sunbeams & Working Boats)

Rules Governing Races
All races will be governed by the 2005 - 2008 Racing Rules of Sailing (RRS) of the International Sailing Federation (ISAF), the prescriptions of the RYA and the Rules of the Classes, except as any of these are changed by the Club’s Sailing Instructions. Details of all Club racing will be posted on the Official Notice Board in the Clubhouse.

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Sailing Instructions
These are contained in the Club Sailing Instructions 2008 and apply to the all Club Racing and Special Events. Waterproof course sheets can be obtained from the Clubhouse Bar, for a donation to the RNLI of at least £1 (uncovered copies are free).

Sailing instructions and race cards are also available to download via the links below.

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Entry Forms
Completed entry and declaration forms for the 2008 season are required from all competitors prior to participating in the Club Races.

Entry forms will be available in the Clubhouse and here and a list of current handicaps will be posted on the Official Notice Board on the stairway. All PY handicaps used in the Club Points Series Races will be as issued and modified by the RYA and agreed throughout the Port of Falmouth Sailing Association. The Club Handicapper, in accordance with the guidelines of the R.Y.A., may adjust handicaps to correspond with the performance of particular yachts.

Juniors racing in Club boats are requested to sign the sheet on the noticeboard at Stoneworks Quay prior to racing, so points can be correctly awarded.

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Pursuit Races
The season will start with a Spring Series and finish with an Autumn Series of Club Pursuit Races.

The Spring Series, on Sunday mornings and Thursday evenings, will consist of six races, four best scores to count.

The Autumn Series on Sunday mornings, will consist of four races, all scores to count.

The Low Point Scoring System will be used. These will be open to all club boats capable of sailing a course designed for 100 minutes in a 1000 PY handicap yacht. There will be a safety boat on duty. Handicaps will be adjusted to separate starts by multiples of one minute. Further details of these races will be posted on the Official Notice Board in the Clubhouse.

On Sunday mornings the race length will be 100 minutes and start time will be 10:50 for a PY 1000 yacht, and the Race Officer will attempt to finish as close as possible to 12:30.

On Thursday evenings, the race length will be 80 minutes and start time 18:15 for a PY 1000 yacht, with the aim to finish at 19:35.

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Points Series Races
Points Series Races will be held on Sunday Mornings and Thursday Evenings from Sunday 1st June to Thursday 25th September for the following classes except where interrupted by POFSA events and Village Regattas:

Class Letter & Name	Sunday Start Time	Thursday Start Time
Class H: Shrimpers	1030	1800
Class F: IOD & 18ft Restricted	1035	1805
Class A: Marieholms & Handicap Yachts (PY)	1040	1810
Class W: Ajaxs	1045	1815
Class T: Fast* Handicap Dinghies	1050	1820
Class R: Slow** Handicap Dinghies	1055	1825
Class V: Sunbeams	1100	1830
Class Q: SBR Sports Boats	1105	1835
Class B: Working Boats	1110	1840

*Fast Handicap Dinghies include PY 1101 and below (e.g. Laser Radials and faster dinghies).
**Slow Handicap Dinghies include PY 1102 and above (e.g. Toppers, Picos, Optimists).

The Race Officer will aim to finish the Sunday Morning races by 12:30 and the Thursday evening races by 19:45.

The Low Point Scoring System in Appendix A of the Racing Rules will be used. Each boat’s series score shall be the total of her best 7 results for the Sunday series and her best 9 results for the Thursday series. The boat with the lowest series score wins, and others are ranked accordingly.

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Sunday and Special Events
For 2008, there will be starts for all classes for the Club Sunday Special Events, as there will be no points racing on those days.

These events are the May Day Cup Races, the Frank Peters Races and the Victory Cup Races.

A Prize Giving and Social Event will follow the racing. The starts will be as follows:

Class Letter & Name	May Day	Frankie Peters	Victory Cup

Class H: Shrimpers		1030
Class F: IOD & 18ft Restricted		1035
Class A: Marieholms & Handicap Yachts (PY)		1040
Class W: Ajaxs		1045
Class T: Fast Handicap Dinghies		1050
Class R: Slow Handicap Dinghies		1055
Class V: Sunbeams		1100
Class Q: SBR Sports Boats		1105
Class B: Working Boats		1110
Class C: Small Working Boats		1115

Class H: Shrimpers	1415	1415	1345
Class F: IOD & 18ft Restricted	1420	1420	1350
Class A: Marieholms & Handicap Yachts (PY)	1425	1425	1355
Class W: Ajaxs	1430	1430	1400
Class T: Fast Handicap Dinghies	1435	1435	1405
Class R: Slow Handicap Dinghies	1440	1440	1410
Class V: Sunbeams	1445	1445	1415
Class Q: SBR Sports Boats	1450	1450	1420
Class B: Working Boats	1500	1500	1430
Class C: Small Working Boats	1505	1505	1435

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Short Series for Sunbeams & Working Boats
There will be a 4 race series on Thursday evenings in June and July, coinciding with evening high tides for Sunbeams and Working Boats, sailing for the Dougie Burnett Sunbeam Trophy and the Working Boat Wooden Trophies. The prizegiving will be in the clubhouse after the last race on July 31st.

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