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The 48th Massachusetts State High School Championship 2023

Wed 24-May-2023	12:00-16:30
Thu 25-May-2023	12:00-16:30

Registration Start:	10-May-2023 at 00:00
Registration End:	25-May-2023 at midnight

Sailing Instructions

Massachusetts High School Championship Massachusetts Institute of Technology
The People’s Republic of Cambridge

May 24-25, 2023

SAILING INSTRUCTIONS

1. RULES

1. 1.1.  This regatta shall be governed by the Racing Rules of Sailing 2021-2024 (RRS), the Procedural Rules (PR) and Class Rules for Interscholastic Sailing Competition 2021-2024, except as any of these are modified by these Sailing Instructions.

2. 1.2.  Any questions regarding these Sailing Instructions should be submitted in writing to Principal Race Officer Franny Charles

3. 1.3.  Appendix V1 shall apply. PENALTY AT THE TIME OF AN INCIDENT The first two sentences of rule 44.1 are changed to: ‘A boat may take a One-Turn Penalty when she may have broken one or more rules of Part 2 or rule 31 in an incident while racing. However, when she may have broken one or more rules of Part 2 while in the zone around a mark other than a starting mark, her penalty shall be a Two Turns Penalty.’

2. NOTICES TO COMPETITORS

2.1. Notices will be posted on the official regatta notice board located west of the main lobby.

3. CHANGES IN SAILING INSTRUCTIONS

3.1. Any changes in the sailing instructions will be announced orally and posted before the first race in which they take effect.

4. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Wednesday

Noon Report Time
1215 Competitors Meeting
ASAP First Warning Signal 

Thursday

Noon Report Time
1215 Competitors Meeting
ASAP First Warning Signal
1630 No Starting Signal After

5. FORMAT

Noon Report Time
1215 Competitors Meeting ASAP First Warning Signal Noon Report Time
1215 Competitors Meeting ASAP First Warning Signal 1630 No Starting Signal After

1. 5.1.  The event will be sailed in two division.

2. 5.2.  Bathroom, water and snack breaks will occur after every two races.

6. BOATS & EQUIPMENT

1. 6.1.  Adjustments to the standing rigging shall not be made.

2. 6.2.  Bailing buckets shall be tied to the boat

3. 6.3.  Competitors shall report all damage or loss of equipment, however slight, to MIT Dockmaster Stew Craig. or to the

   Race Committee Finish Boat on the water.

1. ROTATION

   Competitors will rotate boats in accordance with the posted rotation. A Division will sail 420s on Wednesday and FJs on Thursday
   B Division will sail FJs on Wednesday and 420s on Thursday

2. MARKS

1. 8.1.  All rounding marks will be pink and green balls .

2. 8.2.  The starting mark will be the farther away pink ball on the port side of the RC signal boat. The starting line will be

   between a staff displaying an orange flag on the Race Committee Start Boat and the course side of the starting

   mark.

3. 8.3.  The finishing marks will be two green balls. If a plus course is sailed, the finish shall be between two yellow balls.

9. COURSE

9.1. Courses will be announced orally and taken from the course diagrams on the Official Notice Board. Inner and Outer Trapezoids shall be employed. An option to add a leg may be stated as a ‘PLUS’ course.

9.2.

10. STARTING SYSTEM

10.1. Races will be started in accordance with PR 18(b)(i).

11. PROTESTS

1. 11.1.  Protests shall be filed in accordance with the ISSA Procedural Rules.

2. 11.2.  Protests shall be filed with 10 minutes of securing boats to the shore after races in which the incident occurred.

   Protests forms will be available from the counter in the lower lobby of the sailing pavilion. They should be

   submitted to the score keeper at the computer in the upstairs office area.

3. 11.3.  Video, data and/or photographs taken from any source may be presented as evidence at protest hearings.

12. SAFETY

1. 12.1.  Competitors who require assistance from rescue boats should signify by waving arms overhead. A competitor who retires from a race shall notify any member of the Race Committee as soon as possible.

2. 12.2.  Starts will not be delayed accommodating capsized boats.

13. COACHING

1. 13.1.  PR 19 will apply.

2. 13.2.  The use of drones in the vicinity of the regatta or the MIT Sailing Pavilion is prohibited.

14. TROPHIES

Keeper Trophies shall be awarded to the top team, Low point boat in both A and B Division. Low point female helmed boat in both A and B Divisions.

Regatta Chair- Stew Craig, MIT Dockmaster
PRO- Franny Charles, MIT Sailing Master
Questions regarding the facility or boats may be addressed to: fcharles@mit.edu

      

Organizers

Questions about this event should be directed to the organizer(s): STEWART CRAIG, Fran Charles