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Buoy and Distance Series
Scoring and Eligibility
Variances from the WFPHRF Rules
VSS points for sailing in a SBYA Regatta
Buoy and Distance Series
Scoring and Eligibility
Variances from the WFPHRF Rules
VSS points for sailing in a SBYA Regatta
The Buoy and Distance Series
Scoring and Eligibility
* All participants in any of the VSS series events
that have a current, valid, WFPHRF certificate are automatically
entered in that There will
be two VSS series of races, which will be scored separately with
separate trophies being awarded.
The "Buoy" series will be sailed on Saturdays, as listed in the Calendar, and will consist of races of ~5 nm length on closed courses in the Gulf. We will attempt to sail two races each race day. The first start for the day will normally be at ~13:00. A Skipper's Meeting will be held in Higel Marine Park at 11:00 on race day.
The "Distance Race" series will be sailed on Sundays, as listed in the calendar, and will consist of races of 8 nm or longer which will use a variety of marks, including buoys placed in the water for other purposes. There will only be one race each race day, which will start ~13:00. A Skipper's Meeting will be held in Higel Marine Park at 11:00 on race day.
The "Buoy" series will be sailed on Saturdays, as listed in the Calendar, and will consist of races of ~5 nm length on closed courses in the Gulf. We will attempt to sail two races each race day. The first start for the day will normally be at ~13:00. A Skipper's Meeting will be held in Higel Marine Park at 11:00 on race day.
The "Distance Race" series will be sailed on Sundays, as listed in the calendar, and will consist of races of 8 nm or longer which will use a variety of marks, including buoys placed in the water for other purposes. There will only be one race each race day, which will start ~13:00. A Skipper's Meeting will be held in Higel Marine Park at 11:00 on race day.
Scoring and Eligibility
series. Rating certificates are available online at www.westfloridaphrf.org. If you do not have a certificate then VSS will assign a rating from the US Sailing data base, but such a rating will usually be much less favorable than one issued by WFPHRF.
* VSS has changed the scoring scheme for this season, in order to reward boats that sail in more races.
* The “fraction of boats beaten” scoring method will be utilized. Each final race score will be 0.1 point plus the fraction of boats beaten. For example, if your final standing in a race is 4th overall in a 10 boat fleet, since you beat 6 of 10 boats, the fraction of boats beaten = 6/10 = .600. Your total race score = 0.1 + 0.600 = 0.700
* The “series score” for each boat will be the sum of her race scores. However, exclude her worst N scores, where N = 30% (rounded up) of the races completed by that class. For example, if we sail 15 races for the season, then each boat will have her worst 5 races (including races in which they were not entered) dropped (30% of 15 = 4.5, which rounds up to 5). The qualified boat with the highest “series score” is the winner, and others are ranked accordingly.
Variances from the WFPHRF rules
Any boat may fly a spinnaker,
either tacked near the centerline of the deck ("cruising chute") or
flown from a pole. Her rating will be reduced by the "spinnaker
offset" shown on her WFPHRF certificate. If a spinnaker is used
the Race Committee must notified. In the case that a pursuit race
is announced, the skipper must declare at the Skipper's
Meeting that a spinnaker may be used.
In any Distance Race an autopilot may be used.
In any Distance Race an autopilot may be used.
VSS Points for sailing in an SBYA Regatta
To encourage VSS Sailors to venture
out to the wider world, a boat sailing in a sanctioned SBYA-BOTY event (not
held in Venice) on the same weekend as a VSS race day will
receive, for each race she misses, the same score that she received in
the corresponding race at the SBYA event. For example, if she
sails in a regatta that had three races and misses a two race buoy race
day in Venice, she will be awarded the points that she won in the first
two races of the regatta. If, on the other hand, she races in a
one-race regatta on the same weekend as a two race buoy race day, she
will be awarded the points she won at the SBYA race for the 1st race,
but a zero for the 2nd.
In 2009/10 this could occur in November and February and possibly March.
In 2009/10 this could occur in November and February and possibly March.