Weekend Racing

Sailing Instructions

The Sailing Instructions are available on the club web site THSC.CA for each racing event and can be obtained from the Racing Fleet Captain or the Rear Commodore.

On the water, the Race Committee intends to monitor and communicate with competitors on VHF channel 73.

• Division 1 – Spinnaker (All PHRF). Identified by numeral pennant 1).
• Division 2 – White Sail (All PHRF). Identified by numeral pennant 2.

Schedule of events

• See individual Racing events in Weekend Racing submenu

All races will have a skippers meeting at 11:00 am on the THSC patio on the day of the race to finalize registration and to go over any last minute changes.

• This is a FRIENDLY series and your Race Committee would like this to continue. Avoid putting yourself in violation of the rules and if a situation arises, do your penalty and get on with racing. You can learn from your mistakes back on shore.
• Know your current CYA/ISAF racing Rules of Sailing, and have a copy on board.

• If you wish to protest a potential infringement of the rules, then the following must take place:
  • A red protest flag must be flown, and verbal notice of protest given to the other boats involved as soon as possible after the incident occurs.
  • The Race Committee should be notified of the protest at the earliest opportunity. Please note, that waiting until the end of the race is too late and your protest will be disallowed.

• Protest forms (available from the Racing Fleet Captain must be completed and presented to the Racing Fleet Captain within 30 minutes of the docking of the Race Committee vessel. Please note that at a minimum, this should contain the protesting vessel name, the name of the vessel being protested and a description of the alleged incident.
• Any protest will be considered immediately after the involved race with an arbitration hearing between the protesting skippers and one or both of the THSC Club Judges. If an acceptable decision can be reached by the parties involved, no further action will be taken. This could include withdrawal of the protest.
• If an acceptable decision cannot be reached, the protest will be heard by a pro tem committee of 3, drawn up by the Racing Fleet Captain or the Rear Commodore.

• All race series will be scored with each race counting for equal points under the low point scoring system (e.g. First = 1 point, Second = 2 points, Third = 3 points etc).
• DNF will score the number of boats in the same division that started in a given race plus 1.
• DSQ will score the number of boats that started in a given race plus 2.
• DNS will score the number of boats registered in the Division for the series or race plus 2.
• For the trophies that will be awarded in Series I, II or III in the Wednesday Night Races, the best 4 places will be counted. If there are 4 or less races in a series completed then all will count.
• For Overall Season Trophies in each Division, the best 10 placings in all 3 series will be counted. If fewer than 10 races are completed, then all will count.