Sturgeon Lake Sailing Club
Civic Regatta
August 3rd 2024
Notice of Race
Schedule:
Saturday August 3rd:
Registration opens at 9 a.m.
Skippers’ Meeting at 10 a.m.
1st gun at 11:00 a.m.
Sunday August 4th:
7:00pm – Prize Giving at SLSC new boat house
→ ice cream treats and sandwiches, cookies, and bubly (water) will be served.
Cost: $10.00 per person for Junior Sailors
$20.00 per person for non-junior club members/adults
Food:
Granola bars, apples, and water will be provided on the water to sailors.
Please bring your own LABELED lunch in a water-proof bag to registration. It will be delivered to you on the water!
Boats:
SLSC boats will be offered to the community on a first-come-first-served basis, prioritizing junior club members.
Everyone is encouraged to come down and sail in either an SLSC boat or a boat of your own!
The Courses:
Laser/420/Feva/Handicap Fleets: Big Course around The Point
The course will be twice around windward-leeward with a leeward gate for Lasers/Radials, 420, and Handicap classes.
The finish will be an offset finish between the Race Committee boat and a finish mark.
Pico/Opti Fleets: Small Course in front of SLSC
The course will be twice around a triangle course for the Pico/Opti 420 classes.
The finish line will be the same line as the start.
Order of Starts:
Big Course:
1st start: Lasers and Laser Radials
2nd start: Handicap
3rd start: Club 420 (with spinnaker)
4th start: FevasSmall Course:
Optis and Picos will start at the same time but will be scored separately.
Class Flags:
Pennant 1 – Lasers and Radials
Pennant 5 – Handicap
Pennant 3 – 420s
Pennant 2 – Fevas
Trophies:
*winners from last year, please remember to engrave your trophy with your name and year, and please drop off your trophy at SLSC prior to prizegiving on Sunday August 6th.
Lasers – Flavelle Cup
Radials – Hopkins Trophy
Club 420 – Tolka Bowl
Feva – Instructor’s Trophy
Pico – Treetops Trophy
Optimist – Crandell A Cup
Rules:
The series will be governed by the “rules” as defined in the Racing Rules of Sailing.
Starting Sequence:
- all signals will be made with a flag and airhorn sound.
5 minutes: Class flag
4 minutes: Prep (code flag “P”)
1 minute: Prep down
GO!!: Class flag down
The Marks:
The marks will be large orange tetrahedrons (with possible substitutions depending on how many orange tetrahedrons actually inflate)
The start/finish line will be between a mark and the RC Flag displayed on the mast of the Committee Boat.
Number of Races:
Maximum 8 races. No races will be started after 4p.m.
Scoring:
Low point scoring system. One drop race if 5 or more races are completed.
SI for SLSC’s Annual Civic Regatta
RULES
The prescriptions of Sail Canada, the national sport authority for sailing, will apply and are stated in full in SI 30.
Appendix P, special procedures for RRS 42 will apply.
The class rules of the participating classes will apply. Boats in the 420 class may use any recognized 420 hull form and the standard club training rig (with non-tapered mast) and shall have a minimum weight of 100 kg fully rigged for sailing and in dry condition, but without sails and personal equipment.
The preamble to Part 4 and RRS 40 is changed to require adequate personal buoyancy to be worn at all times while afloat except while changing clothes. Code Flag ‘Y’ need not be flown.
RRS G1.1 (b) will not apply. This changes RRS 77.