RACE RESULTS WILL BE POSTED WITHIN 24 HOURS........................................................................BOATS THAT DO NOT DISPLAY A SECTION FLAG WILL NOT BE SCORED..................................

Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club

Club Racing Program

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Contents

Appendix C: The Rabbit Start

Racing Schedule

Note: Separate Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions will be issued for some regattas. The regattas covered by this Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions are listed in NOR 5 SCHEDULE.

6 SAILING INSTRUCTIONS. 7

7 SCORING.. 7

8 PRIZES. 7

9 DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY. 7

Corinthian Club Racing Season

Organizing Authority and Hosted by

The Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club

Chicago, Illinois

NOTICE OF RACE

1 RULES

1.1 All racing will be governed by the rules as defined in The Racing Rules of Sailing.

1.2 All class rules prohibiting VHF radios and cellular telephones are waived.

1.3 Chicago Tartan Ten Association Rule 2.3(a) is changed as follows: There is no crew weight limit while racing.

1.4 Chicago Tartan Ten Association Rule 2.3(b) is changed as follows: There is no crew limit while racing.

2 ADVERTISING

Advertising will be restricted to Category A.

3 ELIGIBILITY

3.1 The racing season is open to boats that have a current PHRF certificate and to boats of the following classes:

(a) Corinthian Frostbite

(b) Laser

(c) Lightning

(d) Rhodes 19

(e) Vanguard 15

3.2 Each boat shall be owned, co-owned, or chartered by a CCYC member.

3.3 Each skipper shall be a full CCYC member in good standing, a member applicant, or a member of the junior fleet.

3.4 Members acknowledge and understand that race committee duty is a requirement for eligibility. Failure to perform a race committee assignment may result in being scored DNE (disqualification not excludable) for one or more races completed. Penalties shall continue to be assessed until the race committee assignment is fulfilled.

3.5 Class Membership

(a) Lightning – a skipper racing in the Championship Series shall be a member in good standing of the ILCA and Lightning Fleet 5.

(b) Offshore Fleet – a skipper shall be a member in good standing of the offshore fleet.

(c) Rhodes 19 – a skipper shall be a member in good standing of Rhodes 19 Fleet 12. A regular crewmember not meeting the eligibility requirements may take the helm while racing providing that the crewmember neither starts nor finishes.

(d) Vanguard 15 - To be eligible for club racing, a yacht's owner or co-owner must be a member in good standing of the Vanguard 15 Class Association.

4 ENTRY

Eligible offshore boats may enter by completing an entry form and sending it to the offshore fleet captain prior to racing. Each boat shall submit a current LMPHRF certificate. The offshore fleet captain may assign a temporary rating to a boat without a valid certificate. An entry form is included with this Notice of race or can be obtained on our website www.corinthian.org/offshoreracing

5 SCHEDULE

The series covered under this Notice of Race are listed in the Corinthian Racing Schedule. For the scheduling convenience of the racing fleets, additional regattas are listed. These regattas are hosted by the club and have separate eligibility and entry requirements.

The special regattas include:

Spring Opener (published under Area III)

Olympic Cup (published under Area III)

Gim Hobelman Moonlight Regatta

One-design Hobelman

Gim Hobelman (published under Area III)

Kaczmarek (published under Area III)

Spring Team Race

Vanguard 15 National Championship

Hairy Scary Team Racing

Red Flannels

6 SAILING INSTRUCTIONS

Sailing instructions are included within this racing program. Sailing Instructions for the Vanguard 15 and Laser fleets are published separately.

7 SCORING

8 PRIZES

8.1 The Lightning Class awards trophies for the Championship Series. The Hildegard Perpetual Trophy, built by Irving Campbell in 1947 is awarded to the Lightning Class Champion.

8.2 The Rhodes 19 Class awards trophies for the Championship Series, the Wednesday Evening Series, the City Series and the Fall Series.

8.3 The Tartan Ten Class awards trophies for the Waveland Challenge.

8.4 The Offshore Fleet awards trophies in the Weekend Series A & B, the Wednesday Evening Series A, B & C (including sections breaks), the Pursuit Series and the Commodore Cup Series.

9 DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY

Competitors participate in the racing season entirely at their own risk. See RRS 4, Decision to race. The organizing authority will not accept any liability

SAILING INSTRUCTIONS. 8

1 RULES. 8

2 NOTICES TO COMPETITORS. 8

3 CHANGES IN SAILING INSTRUCTIONS. 8

4 SIGNALS MADE ASHORE. 8

5 SCHEDULE OF RACES. 8

6 CLASS FLAGS AND SECTION BREAKS. 8

7 RACING AREA. 9

8 THE COURSES. 9

9 MARKS. 11

10 AREAS THAT ARE OBSTRUCTIONS. 11

11 CHECK-IN. 11

12 THE START. 11

13 GENERAL RECALL. 12

14 CHANGE OF THE NEXT LEG OF THE COURSE. 12

15 THE FINISH. 12

16 TIME LIMIT. 13

17 PROTESTS AND REQUESTS FOR REDRESS. 13

18 SCORING.. 13

19 PRIZES. 14

20 SAFETY REGULATIONS. 15

21 REPLACEMENT OF CREW OR EQUIPMENT. 15

22 RADIO COMMUNICATION. 15

23 RACE COMMITTEE AND PATROL CRAFT. 15

24 DISCLAIMER OF LIABILITY. 15

25 THE PURSUIT SERIES. 15

2006 Corinthian Club Racing Season

Organizing Authority and Hosted by

The Chicago Corinthian Yacht Club

Chicago, Illinois

SAILING INSTRUCTIONS

1 RULES

1.1 All racing will be governed by the rules as defined in The Racing Rules of Sailing.

1.2 All class rules prohibiting VHF radios and cellular telephones are waived.

1.3 Chicago Tartan Ten Association Rule 2.3(a) is changed as follows: There is no crew weight limit while racing.

1.4 Chicago Tartan Ten Association Rule 2.3(b) is changed as follows: There is no crew limit while racing.

2 NOTICES TO COMPETITORS

Notices to competitors shall be posted on the official notice board located on the North wall of the club's main assembly area.

3 CHANGES IN SAILING INSTRUCTIONS

Any changes to the sailing instructions will be posted before 0900 on the day it will take effect, except that any changes to the schedule of races will be posted by 2000 on the day before it will take effect.

4 SIGNALS MADE ASHORE

4.1 Signals made ashore shall be displayed on the flagstaff facing the waterfront of the clubhouse.

4.2 When flag AP is displayed ashore, ‘1 minute’ is replaced with ‘not less than 60 minutes’ in the race signal AP.

5 SCHEDULE OF RACES

See the Corinthian Racing Schedule within this racing program.

5.1 It is the intention of the race committee to run up to three one-design races on Sunday. If the race committee intends to start another race, it will display the Second Substitute (with no sound) while boats are finishing.

6 CLASS FLAGS AND SECTION BREAKS

Class	Flag
Lightning	White with class logo
Rhodes 19	Orange with class logo
Tartan Ten	Numeral pennant 0
Offshore	White with CCYC OS

6.1 An offshore boat without proper sail numbers shall not be scored (amends RRS G4).

6.2 A boat competing in a Wednesday Evening PHRF section shall display its section flag from the backstay beginning with its preparatory signal until it finishes. Boats failing to display a flag shall not be scored.

Wednesday Evening Section Breaks

PHRF Section	Flag	PHRF Rating
JAM 1	Numeral pennant 1	- Infinity to 151
JAM 2	Numeral pennant 2	151 to + infinity
Spinnaker 6	Numeral pennant 6	- Infinity to 136 (see note)
Spinnaker 7	Numeral pennant 7	132 to + infinity
Note: T-10s shall not compete in the Spinnaker 6 section.

7 RACING AREA

Racing shall take place upon the open waters of Lake Michigan East of Montrose Harbor.

8 THE COURSES

8.1 Boats racing must not pass through the start/finish line after starting except to finish or when the starting mark is a rounding mark of the course.

8.2 One-Design Fleet Weekend Courses

(a) The race committee shall designate a course and first mark using placards before or with the warning signal (amends RRS 27.1).

(b) Nine courses (A, B, C, D, F, WL2, WL3, WL4 or WL5) shall be available for use at the discretion of the race committee. See the course diagrams in Appendix A: COURSE DIAGRAMS.

8.3 Wednesday Evening Series Courses

The race committee shall designate the first mark using placards before or with the warning signal (amends RRS 27.1). See the course diagrams in Appendix A: COURSE DIAGRAMS.

Class	Course
Rhodes 19	E
JAM 1	A
JAM 2	A
Spinnaker 6	E
Spinnaker 7	E
T-10	E

8.4 Offshore Fleet Weekend and Commodore Cup Courses

(a) The race committee shall designate a course and first mark using signal flags or placards before or with the warning signal (amends RRS 27.1).

(b) The Weekend Series shall be sailed using any of the Courses 1 thru 9, A thru E as described below.

(c) The Commodore Cup shall use either Course WL2 or WL4 (utilizing drop marks), as described in Appendix A: COURSE DIAGRAMS. The race committee reserves the right to designate an alternate course.

Course	Scoring Distance (Nm)	Marks passed to	Marks and the order in which the marks are to be passed.
1 Green	9.8	stb.	Start, Wilson Crib, SE2, West, Finish
1 Red	9.8	port	Start, West, SE2, Wilson Crib, Finish
2 Green	8.4	stb.	Start, West, T, Wilson Crib, Finish
2 Red	8.4	port	Start, Wilson Crib, T, West, Finish
3 Green	11.9	stb.	Start, T, SE2, Finish
3 Red	11.9	port	Start, SE2, T, Finish
4 Red	8.1	port	Start, SE2, Finish
5 Red	7.2	port	Start, T, Finish
6 Green	9.4	stb.	Start, Wilson Crib, SE2, Southwest, Finish
6 Red	9.4	port	Start, Southwest, SE2, Wilson Crib, Finish
7 Green	7.8	stb.	Start, Northwest, T, Finish
7 Red	7.8	port	Start, T, Northwest, Finish
8 Green	7.6	stb.	Start, North, T, Finish
8 Red	7.6	port	Start, T, North, Finish
9 Red	7.6	port	Course A, except two times around. The race committee shall signal the first mark by placards.
A Green	7.5	stb.	Start, South, V, Finish
A Red	7.5	port	Start, V, South, Finish
B Green	10.3	stb.	Start, V, T, South, Finish
B Red	10.3	port	Start, South, T, V, Finish
C Green	7.5	stb.	Start, West, E2, Finish
C Red	7.5	port	Start, E2, West, Finish
D Green	7.6	stb.	Start, Northwest, E2, SE, Finish
D Red