MCYC DUNES CUP VNA
HOSPICE REGATTA
NOTICE OF RACE
August 9, 2008
Michigan City Yacht Club
Washington Park, Box 857
Michigan City, IN 46360
Phone: h (219) 929-5797; or (219) 787-3321; herb.Philbrick@mittalsteel.com
Event Chairs
Bill Higbie - bill@angelcrestinc.com
Herb Philbrick – hphilbrick@verizon.net
Michigan City Yacht Club invites you to participate in the Dunes Cup VNA Hospice Regatta to benefit VNA Hospice of Porter County. The Michigan City Yacht Club, Michigan City, IN is the official organizing authority and host of The Regatta.
The regatta will be governed by the "rules" as defined in the Racing Rules of Sailing. The regatta is open to skippers representing a yacht club or association recognized by the International Sailing Federation (ISAF) or their national authority.
There are two ways to enter:
Online Registration - Click Here
Four entries are required to establish a One-Design class. Splits in PHRF fleets will be established based on number of entries.
Entry Fee - $50.00 (Entry fee includes 2 dinner tickets.)
Non-US Sailing Members - $10.00 added fee
The entry fee include racing, awards, free continental breakfast, Rum Punch Bar (for racers over 21years), raft up on the wall in the Michigan City basin, music/dancing and 2 dinners.
Entry fees are payable at regatta registration or online.
Racing is scheduled on Saturday, August 9th. Up to 4 short course races are planned for Spin class and 1 long race for J.A.M. The Race Committee may cancel any or all racing for adverse conditions. The decision of the Race Committee shall be final and is not grounds for protest.
Sailing Instructions will be available at registration.
Racing will be sailed on Lake Michigan waters around the MCYC standard race marks (approximately 1.5 N-mile north of Michigan City Lighthouse, refer to MCYC Sail Race Handbook at (http://www.ussailing.net/mcyc/)
Marks, courses, and handicapping (PHRF time-on time) will be as defined in the MCYC Sail Race Handbook (http://www.ussailing.net/mcyc/). Individual class series and the Hospice Overall Series will be scored on a low point basis with one race being required to constitute a series. There will be no throw outs. One-design and PHRF fleets will have separate starts, but will sail the same courses. PHRF splits will be established based on number of entrants.
There will be at least one Spinnaker section and at least one Jib-and-main section. Further section breakdowns will be determined based on the number and class of boats entered.
Using group scoring and PHRF handicapping, both One-Design and PHRF Spinnaker fleets will be eligible for the Hospice Overall Award.
Competition for the Dunes Cup is at the club level and will be scored on a point basis as follows: The first place boat in each fleet series earns 3 points for its home club, 2 points for a second place finish, and 1 point for third place finish. The club earning the most point wins the Dunes Cup. The two best regatta scores from each club in each class will be counted for the Dunes Cup.
Yachts will race with LMPHRF ratings. Boats without a LMPHRF rating will be assigned a rating by the MCYC Vice Commodore of Sail. This rating will be final and is not grounds for protest.
A competitors' briefing for all classes will be held promptly at 900 hours on Saturday, August 9th, in the Pavilion.
Two hoists are available. Every boat using the hoists must have its own INTERNAL sling and must obtain a key from the Michigan City Port Authority Office (219-872-1712). Boats sailing to the event may check with the Michigan City Port Authority Office for availability of transient slips at the applicable rate. Otherwise boats sailing to the event are free to raft up on the wall in the Michigan City Basin.
Flags for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places will be awarded to the skipper in each established class. The name of the overall winning Yacht Club for the Dunes Cup will be placed on the associated perpetual trophy (refer to scoring section). The overall winning boat and skipper for the Hospice Regatta will have its name placed on the associated perpetual trophy, will receive a take home trophy, and will be eligible to compete in the National Hospice Regatta Championship in 2009 (refer to scoring section). Presentations will be made at MCYC.
Competitors participate in this regatta entirely at their own risk. See rule 4, Decision to Race. The organizing authority will not accept any liability for material damage or personal injury or death sustained in conjunction with or prior to, during or after this regatta.
The organizing authorities reserve the right to amend this notice. Amendments will be posted on the Official Notice Board at MCYC and http://www.ussailing.net/mcyc/Invitational_NOR.htm.
Protests will be heard at MCYC 1 hour following the return of the Committee Boat following the last race unless otherwise scheduled by the Protest Committee Chairman.
Official NOR, Amendments, and Special Race Instructions will be posted on the MCYC Notice Board. Race results will posted after the races and, later, on the web.