From the left (in boats): Emileigh (Bandit 22 LTE), Diana (Bandit 22 LTE), Max and Wyndi (Bandit IF), Hannah (Bandit 22 LTE), Aymalie (Bandit IF), Filo and Jane (Bandit 50/3), Rugger (Bandit 22 LTE), Jenna (Bandit 22 LTE), Gryfin (Bandit 22 LTE), Sea (Bandit 22 LTE), Alex (Bandit 22 LTE), and Zimtzicke (Bandit 22 LTE).
On the race committee boat: Cryptic. On the dock: Tamarushka, Daenerys, and Red. On the pier: Marius.
Calm to choppy seas, with a nice fleet turnout, highlighted this weeks North Sea Bandit Regatta. With a moderate breeze of 11 knots out of the southwest, The North Sea regions were generally well behaved as three DNFs (Did Not Finish) were recorded on the day. The first DNF, occurring during the first race, was due to a skipper being overly scripted causing her to crash on several consecutive region borders. After she scripted down from 104 scripts, she had no issues during the second race. The remaining two DNFs happened during the second race, as two skippers crashed on a border crossing, three regions from the finish line. The crowds that gathered around the lighthouses in the Ziziphus and Genip regions, as well as on the Poseidon Centre Spectator Pier and small race dock in the Eden Jakana region, reveled in an exciting display of fleet racing from this weeks skippers. This weeks fleet, sailing on the North Sea 01 and North Sea 02 courses, was made up of a majority of eight Bandit 22 LTEs. Three Bandit IFs, two sailing single-handed and one sailing crewed respectively, and one Bandit 50/3 rounded out this weeks Bandit fleet.
Race Director: Cryptic
Assistant Race Directors: Daenerys, and Tamarushka
Wind: SW (225°) 11kts
Note:
Did Not Finish (DNF) = number of finish +1
Did Not Start (DNS) = number of start +1
Today’s winner was Jenna (jnx1e Resident), with Emi (Emileigh Starbrook) second, and Alex (Alex0730 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 race duties.
Race Notes:
Aymalie (Aymalie Resident) was disqualified (DSQ) during the first race due to failing to complete a 360° penalty turn as instructed by a race director for a Rule 19.2 Giving Room at an Obstruction foul.
“19.2 Giving Room at an Obstruction
(b) When boats are overlapped, the outside boat shall give the inside boat room between her and the obstruction,
unless she has been unable to do so from the time the overlap began.“
Source: 2021 – 2024 World Sailing Racing Rules of Sailing
Sea (filax Carter) was disqualified during the second race for sailing an incorrect course, she rounded the second course mark incorrectly, the pink buoy in the Sloe region, counter-clockwise instead of clockwise.
Zimtzicke (Nicole Myhre) and Alex (Alex0730 Resident) both finished the first race tied at the finishing line with a time of 13:22. As their final time also remains tied, as they both sailed the same boat, Rule A7 of Appendix A, Scoring, 2021 – 2024 World Sailing Racing Rules of Sailing is used to score this tie:
“If boats are tied at the finishing line or if a handicap or rating system is used and boats have equal corrected times, the points for the place for which the boats have tied and for the place(s) immediately below shall be added together and divided equally. Boats tied for a race prize shall share it or be given equal prizes.“
Therefore, both Zimtzicke and Alex receive 5.5 points, as the product for the place for which they have tied and for the place immediately below, 5 and 6, added together and divided equally.
Sea (filax Carter) and Max (Maximiliano Szondi) both finished tied with 13 points. Rule A8.1 of Appendix A, Scoring, 2021 – 2024 World Sailing Racing 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 |
| filax Carter | 3 | 10 |
| Maximiliano Szondi | 6 | 7 |
With the race results rearranged in best to worst finish order, per A8.1, the tie breaks in Sea’s favor with having a third place finish over Max’s sixth place finish as his best.
Hannah (HannahRaines Resident) and Filo (Filo Minnelli) both finished tied with 18 points. Rule A8.1 of Appendix A, Scoring, 2021 – 2024 World Sailing Racing 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 |
| HannahRaines Resident | 8 | 10 |
| Filo Minnelli | 9 | 9 |
With the race results rearranged in best to worst finish order, per A8.1, the tie breaks in Hannah’s favor with having a eighth place finish over Filo’s ninth place finish as his best.
North Sea Racing 