Bandit Regatta – Mar 20th 2023

From the left (in boats): Tamarushka (Bandit IF), Vicky (Bandit 22 LTE), Sandra (Bandit 25R), Julie (Bandit IF), Rugger (Bandit 22 LTE), ViV (Bandit IF), Red (Bandit IF), Sirius (Bandit IF), Moon (Bandit IF), Max and Wyndi (Bandit IF), and Sea (Bandit IF).
On the race committee boat: Cryptic. On the dock: Tyson, Daenerys, and Caethes.

Calm seas, with a nice fleet turnout, highlighted this weeks North Sea Bandit Regatta. With a moderate breeze of 11 knots out of the southwest, rising to 15 knots during the second race, The North Sea regions were mostly well behaved as one DNF (Did Not Finish) was recorded on the day. The lone DNF came from a skipper crashing while crossing over region corners in the second race. The crowds that assembled along the shores on the islands in the Ziziphus, and Genip regions, as well as on the Poseidon Centre Spectator Pier and small race dock in the Eden Jakana region, enjoyed an enthused display of fleet racing from this weeks skippers. This weeks fleet, sailing on the North Sea 02 and North Sea 01 courses, was made up of a majority of eight Bandit IFs, seven sailing single-handed and one crewed respectively. Three Bandit 22 LTEs, and one Bandit 25R rounded out this weeks Bandit fleet.

Note:: With the onset of DST in the United States, Canada, and most of Mexico, SL time (PST) is now one hour ahead. However, Europe will not be entering EU Summer Time until Sunday, March 26th. In order to facilitate that our races are still at a friendly time for our sailors, we will be running our races one SL hour later, but still at the same time GMT/CET.

The schedule for The North Sea, for the remainder of this week will be:

Wednesday 22nd:
North Sea Open Regatta: 2 PM SL time (21:00 GMT/22:00 CET)

Friday 24th:
North Sea Cat Fight: 3:30 PM SL time (22:30 GMT/23:30 CET)

Saturday 25th:
North Sea Bandit IF Regatta: 2 PM SL time (21:00 GMT/22:00 CET)

Beginning next Monday, March 27th, The North Sea will return to our normal 1PM SL time slot for our Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday races, and 2:30 PM SL for our Friday race.

Race Director: Cryptic
Assistant Race Director: Daenerys

Wind: SW (225°) 11kts

Wind: SW (225°) 15kts

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

Today’s winner was Rugger (ruggeromare Resident), with Julie (JulieRoyale Resident) second, and Vicky (Vicky4698 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:
Sandra (Sandra Nebula) was disqualified (DSQ) during the second race for sailing an incorrect course, missing the second course mark, the island in the Genip region.

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Julie (JulieRoyale Resident) and Vicky (Vicky4698 Resident) both finished tied with 6 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
JulieRoyale Residentt	2	4
Vicky4698 Residentt	3	3

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

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Emileigh (Emileigh Starbrook) and Sirius (Sirius Rosca) 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
Emileigh Starbrook	1	12
Sirius Rosca	6	7

With the race results rearranged in best to worst finish order, per A8.1, the tie breaks in Emileigh’s favor with having a first place finish over Sirius’s sixth place finish as his best.
 

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