Invitational Team Race Cup

Notice of Race

Will be published before the 1st of November

Sailing Instructions

 

Notice of Race

Team Racing Invitational Cup(s)

Sail Simulator

January - April

 

1. Organizing Authories

1.1 Organizing Authority

Virtual Sailing Organisation n.e.V

1.2 Exectutive Authority

Virtual Sailing Organisation n.e.V other volunteers (Session Masters)

2. Rules

2.1 The regatta will be governed by the ISAF Racing Rules of Sailing 2009-2012 including appendix D Team Racing

2.2 The regattas will be held using Sail Simulator in its last incarnation.

2.3 When there is a conflict of languages the english language will prevail.

3. Eligiblity

1. Team Race Invitational is limited to teams that represent one nation. A team consist of 3 racing skipper and 1 umpiring skipper and any number of reserves.

2. Skippers can become teammember if they have not represented any other team in the Team Racing Invitational in the year prior to becoming a teammember.

3. To register (not needed to participate, but allow you to track individual results of races etc.) 

4. A Team Racing Invitational team must be created and managed by the team captain. This may be an existing team. The team must be registered for the TRI at the Virtual Sailing Organisation Race Center: http://www.vivarace.de/randr/index.php alternatively teams may register by mail giving all members sail simulator aliases, full first and last name, aswell as e-mail adress. Subject: team registration. Mail shall be send to info(at)vivarace.de.

5. Teammembers must have joined and be accepted by the team captain as member at the time of racing.

4 Format

2. A team holding a TRI-Cup must within 2 weeks of the start of the season, or after taking possesion of a TRI-Cup, or after sucessfully defending a TRI-Cup invite an other team for a team race regatta.

3. A team holding a TRI-Cup may invite a team only once.

4. The invited team will accept an inviation to race within 2 weeks.

   1. Invitations may be extended in any form or means. The Organizing Authorities will be informed by e-mail of all invitations and their intended recipients.

5. The invited team with acception of the invitation, shall determine the boat class in which the races should be carried out. Boat classes shall be limited to boats capable of navigating water with a depth of 1.2 meter under normal sailing trim.

6. The invited team will then also determine the weight of all crew.

7. Use of head sails that extent beyond the for-stay is not allowed.

8. Use of trapeze is not allowed.

9. A minimum of 2 Umpires must be given access to races at all time

10. Umpiring skippers may not umpire races in which their team competes

11. All races shall be 3 vs 3 boats, teams may agree to sail individual races in a 2 vs 2 boat format.

5 Schedule

1. Holder of a Invitational Cup must invite any team within 2 weeks since their last race for that Cup

2. Invitations for team race regattas are to be issued only during the season, from January 1st till March 31st.

3. Starting April 1st all holders of a Team Race Invitational Cup will invite any holder of any other Team Race Invitational cup.

   1. Competing invites are determined by chronology.

   2. The winner combines both cups into one.

4. Team race regattas consist of a series of 7 races. To be sailed on the 2nd monday after the invitation was accepted at the latest.

5. All races take place on Mondays. Racing will generally start on mondays 19:00 UTC (19:00 GMT, 20:00 CET).

6. 7 races wil be sailed.

7. 1 st race will start at 19:00 UTC following races will start in 15 minute intervals after that.

8. Protests, requests for redress appeals must be filed by e-mail to the organizing authority within 24 hours after finishing the last race.

6 Sailing Instructions

6.1 Sailing Instructions will be published 24.00 hrs prior to start of the season.

7 Courses

1. The inviting team will have a course layed out in waters fit for 2 handed dinghies with a mimum depth of 1.5 meters, and a total course length of no more then 0.333 naultical miles and no less then 0.250 nautical miles.

2. The course will have a startinline followed by a minimum of 4 rounding marks and a finish line

3. The finish and start line shall have a length of no less then 0.03 nautical miles and no more then 0.04 nautical miles

4. All sailing will take place in winds from 5 Kts to a maximum of 12 Kts.

5. Courses will be attached to the invitation or offered for download to the invited team

6. Saving the courses:

WINDOWS XP:
Save to
'C:/Documents and Settings/All Users/Application Data/Stentec/Sim5/Sail Simulator 5/Match Courses'

WINDOWS VISTA, WINDOWS 7:
Save to
'C:/Program Data/Stentec/Sim5/Sail Simulator 5/Match Courses'

8 Scoring

1. The score in races will be determined by low-points as per ISAF RRS appendix D.

2. The winner of the invitational regatta will be the team with most races won.

2. The winning team will be designated as „holder of an ITR-Cup“.

3. A winning team may deny to hold an ITR cup. The cup then shall be returned immediately to the organizing authority. Who shall determine the lowest rated team that accepts to hold a cup as holder.

4. Resting TRI-Cups are those where invitations are pending for more then 2 weeks. A resting TRI-Cup is returned to the organizing authority.

5. A pending acceptance to an invitation after 2 weeks shall be scored as DNC and the inviting team declared winner. The holder shall have 4 weeks to invite another team.

9 Information

9.1 for further Information check the race center at vivarace.de

9.2 Sailing Instructions:

to be published.............

 

10 Prizes

Overall Prizes will be awarded to the team that through knockouts is capable of

gathering all Invitational Cups endorsed by the Virtual Sailing Organisation.

10.1 For purpose of handing out prizes all competing teams will name one natural person resident in the European Union

APPENDIX NOR A

 Version Sail Simulator, September 2011

REQUIREMENTS

 

PARTICIPANTS

Requirements as of 1.th of August 2011

1 Sail Simulator 5  latest version (Version 5.2.2.0) „De Luxe“ including Boat Set 1

 

2 Sail Simulator 5: add-on boat set 1 is needed.

 

3 Team Speak 3 client (Downloadable from teamspeak.com)

 

4 Functional connection to the teamspeak 3 server  Server url: vivarace.de  or url:process-it.eu  Port: default

 

5 Boat Scenario: Tool to create animated sail boat situations: http://boats.berlios.de/

 

6 Available Copy of ISAF Racing Rules of Sailing 2009-2012 + Appendix D Team Racing including changes from January 2010 (Downloadable from sailing.org)

 

7 Available Copy of the Casebook to the Racing Rules of Sailing 2009 - 2012 (Downloadable from sailing.org)

 

8 Available Copy of the Teamracing Callbook (Downloadable from sailing.org)

9 Protest / Appeal form

(copy and paste into mail client)  mail to info@vivarace.de

Filed by (alias):

as witness / protesting party (protester) / protested party (protestee)

1. Event:

2.  Type of hearing:  Protest boat vs. boat / RC vs boat / Jury vs Boat / request redress / Appeal

3.  Protesting party alias (protester):

4. Protested party alias (protestee):

5. Incident

Time and place:

Rules alleged to have been broken:

Witness:

6. Did the protesting party (protester)  inform the protested party (protestee)

Yes / No      The protesting party (protester) hailed: "             ".

7. Did the protesting party (protester) and or protested party (protestee) consult the session master on the protest?  Yes / No

8. Describe the incident:

8. (attach images of situation as jpg)

 

CHANGES

8th of October 2011

• Altered/changed §1

  1.1 AO = VSO n.e.V

  1.2 added Executive Authorities as organizers of susidiary competitions.