Triumphal Yacht Club

proudly hosts the

Tiny World Regatta 2011

April 16, 2011

The Ultimate Tiny Sailing Event in Second Life

RULES AND REGS

DRAFT April 3, 2011

In response to the One World Regatta, Triumphal Yacht Club in (a very, very loose) association with Leeward Cruise Club is proud to announce the TINY WORLD REGATTA and CRUISE.

The BIGGEST EVENT IN SL SAILING!!!!! Since the last one.

Tinies will race tiny boats around a tiny course in the tiny seas around Triumphal Yacht Club.

The partying will be MAJOR.

WHEN:-
Saturday 16 April 2011……..8am
Saturday 16 Jan 2011……3 pm

We will do an Leeward Cruise Club cruise around noon.
Parties will be held all day.
Tinies expect to take over the Orcafe and Tinyfe will be race HQ.

(The beer is cheap.)

Note times and numbers of rounds may change depending on participation

WHERE:-
Start and Finish Line in seas around Triumphal Yacht Club

COURSE & CONDITIONS:-
Course:

AV:
This is a TINY race. No AVs over 4 ft 6 inches, (1.4 meters) are allowed to race. Note: excessive plumage will be considered on a case-by-case basis.

THE BOAT
Teams must race the “Tiny Racer” Boats will be provide at the Dock on Race day.

Rules

By example, the above Rule makes the following irrelevant:

- no deleting of any non-essential items inside the boat, such as the cradle, updatechecker, buoys, etc.
- no removal of any textures of the boat by substituting colour instead.
-no removal of scripts
-no addition of scripts or prim
(decorative changes that do not affect sailing may be acceptable; please post any such changes in the discussion thread for comment)
- no removal of any boat prim, including the boat flag.
- no change in the shape of boat prim.

HUDs
– Third party or personal ‘racing HUDs’ or ‘Navigation Aids’ are generally not allowed; however, the use of simple ‘stop-watch’ timers is allowed.
– Simple landmark setters are also allowed. A simple landmark setter shows race mark locations as ‘world map teleport points,’ or the equivalent. Anything more complicated that shows boat position or gives additional numerical data is not allowed.

TEAMS

Tiny World will be a Boat Race, not a skipper race. A group of sailors working together as part of a Team will win this Regatta. Here are the basic “Team Rules.”

Sail Teams:

Boats competing in the regatta will be registered to a “sailing team” that includes one or more people; there is no upper limit. The team will sponsor their boat and work together for all or part of the series. Boats and Teams will win this Regatta, not skippers, and everyone contributing to the sponsoring team will share the victory.

The emphasis on Sailing Teams and crewed boats that can be skippered by any team member should reduce the scheduling pressure of a long race series (up to 2 HOURS), making it more fun and less stressful for all the participants.

Each Team must have a “team coordinator,” a unique contact person who speaks for their team when planning events.

For any particular race, the boat’s team will decide among themselves how large a crew should sail (1-2 sailors), which team members should crew that day, and which crew person will skipper for that race. Even in the middle of the regatta series, a team can decide to add new members, and a sailor on one team can conceivably jump over and join a different team.

If a team member crashes offline and is not able to log back in, they can return as an ‘ALT,’ but must announce the name-change to the Race Director in Group Chat.

Sailors can only race once in any One Round. As noted above, a sailor can be a member of more than one team.

Each team entering the competition must have a unique Team Name.

Each competing race boat must use a unique ID registered to the boat’s team.

Each boat will have a crew of 1-2 sailors and the number crew aboard any boat at the Start DOES NOT have to be equal to the number of crew crossing the Finish line. (In other words, if a crew person falls overboard, they can swim back to shore.)

RACE GUIDELINES:

Competition boats should arrive a minimum of fifteen minutes prior to the scheduled race and check in with the Race Director. (Sober preferably, but not required)

All communication with the fleet will take place over the TINY WORLD SAILING REGATTA chat channel. Competing sailors should join that group and open chat.

Race wind

All competing boats will use the race wind provided by the Start line windsetter. Manually setting the boat wind is not permitted.

Time Limit

If a boat fails to finish in a reasonable time, the Race Director will contact the boat’s team using open chat and by private IM if necessary. If the RD receives no response in five minutes, the RD may score the boat Did Not Finish (DNF) for that race.

A boat that did not finish (DNF) will be scored one more than the number of boats entered in the series.
RACE RULES and JUDGING

General Rules: The RL ISAF Race Rules will apply unless otherwise noted.

Rule exceptions and SL-specific additions will be listed in the ONE WORLD thread on SLSailing.net, and also published in-world. If a Rule is discussed online but no decision is reached or officially announced, the original version of that rule will remain in force.

Several modifications and additions to the Rules will be in effect. They include:

“Crashes” during a race.

A “crash’ is defined as a raceboat that goes off-grid or loses helm control. Crashes during a race are inevitable. Due to the short length of the races, rerezzing after a crash is not allowed. A sunk vessel is scored DNF. Losing the crew is not a crash. As long as the boat crosses the line, it counts.

Rules regarding collision with the EOW on the race course: We don’t have any EOW.

Race Marks

Comments and clarifications of ISAF Rules:

Judges will use a two boat-length zone to resolve Rule 18 protests over ROW at racemarks. Rule 18 does not apply at start line marks, but will apply at the marks that define a GATE, except as stated in Rule 18.4.
Rule 30.1 will NOT be enforced:
Rule 31 will also be enforced:
“31 TOUCHING A MARK While racing, a boat shall not touch a starting mark before starting, a mark that begins, bounds or ends the leg of the course on which she is sailing, or a finishing mark after finishing.”

Touching a mark does not include AV Tails, feathers extending far from av body and other appendages that are unique to tinies.

Judging Guidelines:

Please help us make sure the judging and protest review is uniform, valid, and consistent.

PROTESTS

As soon as practical, the protesting boat must announce any protest over the TINY WORLD Group Chat (or SLSA Group Chat if the other fails). A Race Judge will acknowledge receipt of the protest.

A boat that accepts a protest from another boat or Judge shall acknowledge the acceptance of the foul by sailing clear of other boats and doing a 360 degree circle as soon as reasonably possible.

A boat who does not accept a protest can settle the protest following the race with a protest hearing.

In either case, the crew of the protested boat must reply to the protest (Accept or Deny) by IM over the Group Chat channel as soon as practical after the protest is made.

At the conclusion of a race the RD and the #1 Judge should be the first people to speak to the finished boats once they are collected at the raceline. The staff may use local chat or group chat, whichever is most appropriate. The #1 Judge should ask: “Is there any protest?” and each skipper should reply “YES” or “NO.” If any skipper says YES, the #1 Judge is the ONLY race officer who should speak to the involved race teams about the protested event until that matter is resolved.

The #1 judge should collect standard information (in public chat or group channel) from the boat making the protest (“What protest? What Rule? Against which boat? What Circumstances?”). The #1 judge will then get the alleged offending boat’s response to the protest claim (again in public chat).

Please note: One sailor, preferably the skipper, should speak for each boat.

The Judges and umpires (and any others they chose to involve) then confer in private.

If the Protest Committee is in full agreement regarding a protest and penalty, the #1 judge will then announce the decision to the sailors and the observers in public chat. (For example: “Protest by Team Fossett sailing 82JF is DENIED. NO PENALTY.”)

The judge should then immediately go on to consider the next Protest or shout “NEXT RACE!” and turn management back over to the Race Director.

The Appeal Committee will base their decision on the Rules, the available evidence, and the original statements of the protesting and protested boats. The sailors involved are welcome to attend the protest appeal, but it’s not necessary: the appeal will be based on the original statements of the teams involved.

When available, Jane Fossett will chair the Appeals Committee.

Scoring

The Qualifying Series Race Events will use the ISAF Appendix A Standard Low Point scoring system. Each competing boat will get two discards over the six Rounds.

There will be no tie breakers. If multiple boats tie multiple boats win.

THIS IS A FUN DAY OF RACING AND SAILING
NOTHING LESS WILL BE TOLERATED!!!!