Racing | Puget Sound Sailing Championships (PSSC)
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October 10-11: Big Boat
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Puget Sound Sailing Championship (Big Boat)
Date: October 10-11, 2015 (Saturday and Sunday)
Location: Puget Sound off Shilshole.
Classes: PHRF-NW, IRC, Farr 30, J/105, Melges 24, J/80, Thunderbird, San Juan 24, and other keelboat classes with at least five boats may apply.
Schedule:
Saturday
- 0900 – 0930 Late check in
- 0930 – 0945 Competitor’s briefing
- 1015 – 1045 Practice starts (when available)
- 1100 First warning signal
- After racing Party at clubhouse
Sunday
- 1100 First warning signal
- 1600 No warning signal after this time After racing Awards party at clubhouse
Courses: Courses will typically be windward / leeward and may include gates, offsets, and gybe marks. A target of at least four and up to six races may be sailed each day with a typical race duration of 20 to 60 minutes.
Scoring: A boat’s series score will be the total of her race scores with no scores excluded. This changes RRS A2. One race will constitute a series.
Time Limit: 90 minutes for the first boat in class and for other boats 30 minutes after the first boat that sails the course.
Other Provisions:
- Notice of Race amended by CYC Notice of Race Addendum.
- Keelboats racing in handicap classes must comply with equipment requirement category USSER Nearshore, as amended. These requirements do not apply to boats racing in one design classes.
Awards: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in class.
Registration Fee: Keelboat $120
Registration Deadline: October 8, 2015 (Thursday)
Puget Sound Sailing Championship (Small Boat)
Date: October 3-4, 2015 (Saturday and Sunday)
Location: Puget Sound off Shilshole.
Classes: Optimist, Laser, Snipe, Tasar, Thistle, Star, 505, I-14, F18, J/24, and other small keelboat and centerboard classes with at least five boats may apply.
Schedule:
Saturday
- 0900 – 0930 Late check in
- 0930 – 0945 Competitor’s briefing
- 1015 – 1045 Practice starts (when available)
- 1100 First warning signal
- After racing Party at clubhouse
Sunday
- 1015 – 1045 Practice starts (when available)
- 1100 First warning signal
- 1600 No warning signal after this time
- After racing Awards party at clubhouse
Courses: Courses will typically be windward / leeward and may include gates, offsets, and gybe marks. A target of at least four and up to six races may be sailed each day with a typical race duration of 20 to 60 minutes.
Scoring: A boat’s series score will be the total of her race scores with no scores excluded. This changes RRS A2. One race will constitute a series.
Time Limit: 90 minutes for the first boat in class and for other boats 30 minutes after the first boat that sails the course.
Other Provisions:
- Notice of Race amended by CYC Notice of Race Addendum.
Awards: 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in class.
Registration Fee: Keelboat $120 Centerboard (Double+) $60 Centerboard (Single) $40
Registration Deadline: October 1, 2015 (Thursday)
Parking
- The North parking lot adjacent to the Shilshole Bay Marina dry storage area may be used for trailer and dry-sailed boat storage.
- Please avoid parking vehicles in the North parking lot to maximize space for boat rigging and trailer storage.
Hoists
- Hoists are complimentary to PSSC participants who sign the necessary waivers.
- Waivers will be available at the CYC clubhouse office or hoist. Please do not operate a hoist without signing.
Moorage
- Wet moorage is included with registration and is available to PSSC participants on a first come first serve basis from Friday 2pm to Sunday 10pm.
- Please raft up to other PSSC competitors to conserve space (It works particularly well if boats in the same fleet raft together)
- Small Boats (Oct 3-4): North side of W dock with rafting allowed up to the middle between W and X docks (please make sure that there is room for people to use the hoist.) (See Small Boat Moorage Map)
- Large Boats (Oct 10-11): North side of W dock and South side of X dock, with rafting allowed. Do not moore to the North side of X dock(See Large Boat Moorage Map)
