Winter racing details
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As we come to the end of another fantastic summer sailing season, it is time to dust off the thermals and start preparing for winter. Winter sailing has been going well, and we have decided to compress the racing format to ensure we’re all home when the roast chook lands on the table for Sunday lunch!
The winter series commences on Sunday 14 May and sailing instructions will be updated shortly.
Until then, the format will be as follows::
Winter sailing will remain weekly.
We will run 3 races with a target time of no more than 30 minutes each.
The PRO must be willing to shorten the course if it goes longer than 30 minutes.
We will eliminate the wing mark and the finish mark (no offset mark either)
The marks will be a top mark, start pin and bottom mark.
The start line will also be the finish line.
We will now run rolling starts. If there is a general recall, that class will go to the end of the queue.
The start sequence of each race will be reduced by 2 minutes to a three minute sequence.
The start sequence will be:
At 3 minutes – class flag
At 2 minutes – blue peter
At 1 minute – blue peter down
At 0 minutes – start, class flags down and new class flag up.
ILCA 4 and 6 will start together first followed by ILCA 7.
There will be a quick briefing at 7.30am.
The proposed start time will now be 8.15am.
There will be no warning signal after 10.30am.
