North Sea Open Regatta – Dec 11th 2019

From the left (in boats): Isa (TMS Flying Shadow), Emileigh (Bandit 25r), Cor (Star Class), Cole (TMS Nacra 17), Jackson and Red (Bandit IF), Zimtsicke (Bandit 25r), Teagan and BunnyFuFu (Bandit 25r), Rossa (Bandit 25r), Nihiwatu (TMS Nacra 17), and Daenerys and Tamarushka (TMS Flying Shadow).
On the Committee Boat: Joshua and Cryptic. On the dock: Calandra, Felicia, and Wyndi.

Another great fleet turnout, with nice sim sailing weather, highlighted this weeks North Sea Open Regatta. Only two DNFs (Did Not Finish) were recorded on the day, one in each regatta portion due to crashes, as the regions of The North Sea were overall stable and behaved. Spectators once again gathered in the usual spots, on the Poseidon Centre Spectator Pier, in the Eden Jakana region, and on the islands in the Genip and Ziziphus regions, to revel in the great sailing on display by this weeks fleets.

This weeks small boat fleet, sailing on the North Sea Olympic Mirror course, was comprised of a majority of six Bandit 25Rs. Five The Mesh Shop (TMS) Flying Shadows, three sailing single-handed and two sailing with crew respectively, two TMS Nacra 17s, one TMS Star Class, one Shields Class, and one Bandit IF rounded out this weeks small boat fleet. Meanwhile, the big boat fleet, sailing on the North Sea Extreme course, was comprised of a small majority of four Wildwind Open 60s. Two Trudeau 12 Metres, two TMS One Design 65s, one Wildwind RC-44r, one ACA33, one TMS Ushuaia, one Bandit 50/3, one TMS Volvo Open 70, and one Wildwind AC-62 rounded out this weeks big boat fleet.

Race Director: Cryptic
Wind: SW (225°) 18kts

Note:
Did Not Finish (DNF) = number of finish +1
Did Not Start (DNS) = number of start +1

Today’s winner was Cole (Colette Verino), with Isa (isab DeCuir) second, and Julie (JulieRoyale Resident) in third place. Congratulations to all of you. Thank you to everyone who came to sail and spectate and to the SLCG for helping with racing duties.

Race Notes:
Sandra (WWWAAAA Resident) was disqualified (DSQ) during the small boat portion for finishing the race under protest while failing to complete a 360° penalty turn for a Rule 18.2 foul against Nihiwatu (Nihiwatu Resident) at the third course mark on North Sea Olympic Mirror course, the white buoy in the Eden Jakana region.

“18.2 Giving Mark-Room
(a) When boats are overlapped the outside boat shall give the
inside boat mark-room, unless rule 18.2(b) applies.“

Source: 2017 – 2020 World Sailing Racing Rules of Sailing

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Cole (Colette Verino) and Isa (isab DeCuir) both finished tied with 5 points. Rule A8.1 of Guidance on Scoring under Appendix A to the Rules of Sailing is used to break this tie:

“If there is a series score tie between two or more boats, each boat’s race scores shall be listed in order of best to worst, and at the first point(s) where there is a difference the tie shall be broken in favour of the boat(s) with the best score(s). No excluded scores shall be used.“

Skipper	Best Finish	Next Best Finish
Colette Verino	1	4
isab DeCuir	2	3

With the race results rearranged in best to worst finish order, per A8.1, the tie breaks in Cole’s favor with having a first place finish over Isa’s second place finish as her best.

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Sandra (WWWAAAA Resident), Zimtzicke (Nicole Myhre), and Emileigh (Emileigh Starbrook) all finished tied with 17 points. Rule A8.1 of Guidance on Scoring under Appendix A to the Rules of Sailing is used to break this tie:

“If there is a series score tie between two or more boats, each boat’s race scores shall be listed in order of best to worst, and at the first point(s) where there is a difference the tie shall be broken in favour of the boat(s) with the best score(s). No excluded scores shall be used.“

Skipper	Best Finish	Next Best Finish
WWWAAAA Resident	2	15
Nicole Myhre	5	12
Emileigh Starbrook	8	9

With the race results rearranged in best to worst finish order, per A8.1, the tie breaks in Sandra’s favor with having a second place finish over Zimtzicke’s fifth place finish and Emileigh’s eighth place finishes as their best.

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Safy (CarissaBellane Resident) and Palani (Palani Allen) finished tied with 18 points. As they both have duplicate finishes, Rule A8.2 of Guidance on Scoring under Appendix A to the Rules of Sailing is used to break this tie:

“If a tie still remains between two or more boats, they shall be ranked in order of their scores in the last race. Any remaining ties shall be broken by using the tied boats’ scores in the next-to-last race and so on until all ties are broken. These scores shall be used even if some of them are excluded scores.“

Skipper	Race 1	Race 2
CarissaBellane Resident	11	7
Palani Allen	7	11

In the last race, Safy breaks the tie with Palani with her seventh place finish over Palani’s eleventh place finish.

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ViV (vivipezz Resident) and Cor (CorSakov Sosa) both finished tied with 19 points. Rule A8.1 of Guidance on Scoring under Appendix A to the Rules of Sailing is used to break this tie:

“If there is a series score tie between two or more boats, each boat’s race scores shall be listed in order of best to worst, and at the first point(s) where there is a difference the tie shall be broken in favour of the boat(s) with the best score(s). No excluded scores shall be used.“

Skipper	Best Finish	Next Best Finish
vivipezz Resident	4	15
CorSakov Sosa	5	14

With the race results rearranged in best to worst finish order, per A8.1, the tie breaks in ViV’s favor with having a fourth place finish over Cor’s fifth place finish as his best.

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Jackson (Jacquimo Resident) and Nihiwatu (Nihiwatu Resident) both finished tied with 25 points. Rule A8.1 of Guidance on Scoring under Appendix A to the Rules of Sailing is used to break this tie:

“If there is a series score tie between two or more boats, each boat’s race scores shall be listed in order of best to worst, and at the first point(s) where there is a difference the tie shall be broken in favour of the boat(s) with the best score(s). No excluded scores shall be used.“

Skipper	Best Finish	Next Best Finish
Jacquimo Resident	10	15
Nihiwatu Resident	12	13

With the race results rearranged in best to worst finish order, per A8.1, the tie breaks in Jackson’s favor with having a tenth place finish over Nihiwatu’s twelfth place finish as her best.