2007 J/80 Fleet 1 Notices

Fleet 1 notices will be posted here throughout the season, as needed, as describe in the Notice of Race/Sailing Instructions.

20 August 2007

An error in the date of the second race night of the Fall Series has been noted. The Schedule paragraph in both the Fall Series Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions are changed respectively from "August 31/ 31st" to read "August 30/ 30th".

18 June 2007

The Fleet Captain has decided that we have reached consensus for time limits and clarification of the scoring of boats finishing outside of the required time limit. The "Time Limit" sections of the spring/summer and fall sailing instructions have been modifed to read as follows:

Time Limit: If the first boat does not reach the first leeward mark rounding (or finish for a "once around" designated course) within sixty (60) minutes of the start or the first boat to finish does not finish within one hundred twenty (120) minutes of the start, the race shall be abandoned.

Boats failing to finish within fifteen (15) minutes after the first boat sails the course and finishes will be scored Time Limit Exceeded (TLX) and will be scored one more point than the last finishing boat. The race committee may hail the boat(s) on the radio. A boat so hailed will be given five minutes to get to the starting area before the warning signal for its next race. Use of the motor to return to the starting area is encouraged in the interest of expediency and may be used up until one (1) minute before the start as long as the returning boat remains on the course side of the start line. This changes RRS A4.2

09 May 2007

After discussion with the Fleet Captain and a couple of comments from
the fleet, the following changes have been made to the notice of race
and sailing instructions for 2007.

Both Notice of Race documents:

To emphasize that only one 1 discard is allowed Tom has changed the
Bye wording

From:

Byes: Each boat will be entitled to receive her average score (after
discard) for all races of one regatta (night) in which she was scored
DNC. Details will be addressed in the Sailing Instructions.

To:

Byes: Each boat will be entitled to receive her average score (after 1
discard as described above) for all races of one regatta (night) in
which she was scored DNC.  Details will be addressed in the Sailing
Instructions.

Fall NOR: a typo in Entry and Fees was fixed. 

Fall Series NOR and SI

Scoring 

From:

The first three races of each day will be scored.

To:

Except for the J-Jamboree in which all races will be scored for the
Fall Series, only the first three races of each day will be scored for
the Fall Series.

All documents:

Email addresses: because we do not want to list email addresses in the
usual foo@bar.com format on web documents we have split them up into
user/host pairs. That is confusing and so we have added a pointer to
www.lwsa.org/contact which has contact email addresses listed normally
but yet protected from spam harvesters (thanks Jim Lerner).