FALL SERIES
Sunday, September 18, and Saturdays, September 24 and October 8 and 22, 2016

NOTICE The event information below, used in conjunction with the General Offshore Notice of Race, comprises the complete NOTICE OF RACE for the event.

DESCRIPTION: This series will consist of multiple races on four days for :

PHRF SPINNAKER A, B & C (holding valid PHRF of the Chesapeake certificates)
PHRF NON-SPIN (holding valid PHRF of the Chesapeake certificates)
CRUISING Class (sailboats having a handicap rating assigned by FBYC)
J/70 Offshore One Design

Planned format will be as many as four races on Appendix D courses each day for PHRF Spinnaker subclasses and at least one medium distance race (Appendix D or around marks in Appendix A) each day for PHRF NON-SPIN and CRUISING classes .

PHRF NON-SPIN and CRUISING classes will be sailed allowing only one (1) headsail downwind.

The Race Committee may alter the format on any race day as conditions warrant or to attempt to provide a series of at least eight races for each PHRF SPIN subclass and four races for PHRF NON-SPIN and CRUISING over the four days of racing in the series.

PROGRAM Awards will be presented for each day’s races and refreshments will be provided by FBYC after each day’s races. Overall awards for the series will be presented during the social program following the Offshore Closing Day Regatta on Saturday, October 29, 2016.

Warning The warning signal for the first race each day will be at 1100 hours.

Subsequent races Multiple races are planned each day for PHRF SPIN and may be set for PHRF NON-SPIN and CRUISING Classes.

STARTING AREA The Committee Boat could be anywhere from Piankatank R. G “5” (FBYC “A”) and Piankatank R. Lt. R “2” Fl R 4s (FBYC “F”) or beyond.

COURSES These course instructions apply to all races.

If conditions warrant, the Race Committee will fly Code Flags “F” over “B” when leaving the dock and hail on Channel 72 indicating its intention to race in Fishing Bay and the adjacent Piankatank River.

Courses for PHRF NON-SPIN and CRUISING classes shall, to the extent practical under the course conditions, utilize government marks or drop marks to produce courses which offer a variety of points of sail and are not limited to windward/leeward courses.

TIME LIMITS The time limit for any race in the series shall be 2.5 hours calculated from the actual start time of each class or subclass. If one boat in a class or subclass finishes within the time limit, boats still racing that do not finish within 30 minutes of the first boat finishing in her class will be scored TLE (Time Limit Expired) which will be equal to the number of finishers plus two. This changes RRS 35 and A4.2 .

SCORING The Fall Series winner in each class or subclass will be the boat having the highest score for the series based on the “High-Point Percentage Scoring System”. A boat may qualify for scoring in the series only if she has participated in 51% or more of the total races for the series. There are no throw outs. Boats who attains 100% participation will receive an additional 3 points added to the sum of her race scores. Daily awards are awarded based on the “Low-Point Scoring System”.

CBYRA SANCTION Each day in the Series is sanctioned as a separate event for CBYRA High Point awards.