[Sonar] WYC SI Regarding "Special Fleet Rules"

[Bert Foster]

Hi All,

The Problem

Several years ago there was a protest in another fleet over the fleet
allowing the fleet to give average points to a boat that was away at a NA.
The WYC "Championship" on the line with the PC decision.  It was a big deal.
The PC had to use only the RRS, the  WYC-NOR,  the Class Rules (not the
special feet rules), and the WYC-Sis.  The PC had to rule (even though it
wasn't the fleets intension) that the "average points rule in the local
fleet" was not referenced in the WYC Sis-NOR and were not part of the rules
for the "WYC Championship Series"

 

The Solution

We put into the WYC Sis/NOR that the Fleet Special Rules are part of the
rules the WYC races are sailed under, and we put up a website for each fleet
to have their own special rules.  Then we set up a process for the fleets to
send me, RC Chair their special rules for review for clarity.  I review them
with my rules guys for clarity and recommend changes if they are needed to
be clear.  We don't review them for content as the RC is here to serve the
Fleets and they can make up their own local fleet rules.  We then post them
to the WYC Official Special Fleet Rules that is password protected so they
can't be changed by anyone but the RC Chair.

 

While this may seem a little "picky", the Sonar fleet should follow through.
I told Ernie that Carmella and I could get a rock star crew and sail the BI
race that is used as the Lonar Cup and get credit for that BI Race.  We
should reference the Lonar Cup races as using special fleet rules like
"single hand and whatever else is needed.

 

Regards,

Bert

Bert Foster

RC Chair WYC

H 952-473-2240

C 612-281-9999

 

 

 

 

From: sonar-bounces at lists.wyc.org [mailto:sonar-bounces at lists.wyc.org] On
Behalf Of Martin Fossen
Sent: Monday, April 16, 2012 10:37 PM
To: sonar at lists.wyc.org
Subject: [Sonar] Additional topics/ideas for Fleet meeting

 

Hey Gang,

 

Thanks to those who offered additional topics for discussion at the fleet
meeting at Kvale's.  Below are those ideas for your consideration.  In the
next few days I'll put these, along with previous stuff, into an agenda for
the meeting.

 

Are there formal bylaws written for our fleet?  If so, can copies be made
available for the fleet members?  

One reason for seeing the bylaws relates to the idea that our fleet of
Sonars has always wet sailed.  I believe many years ago there was an
agreement to do that to try to keep costs to local Sonar sailing relatively
low.  But with Zebra mussels coming into the picture, shall we officially
say it's okay to use boat lifts if desired by a Sonar owner?  Was it ever
"officially" prohibited or was it an informal understanding?

 

Additional recurring business:  Average points award if absense is due to
traveling to a sanctioned Sonar regatta.

                                                  Lonar SIs, date, effect to
scoring the race it replaces

                                                  Treats

                                                  Star of the North Regatta,
and it's effect to the scoring of Sunday's C5 race.

                        Sunday Snacks schedule.  

                         Should Thursday treats be added?  If so, how to
organize that.

 

The idea is regular post-race debriefs is being well- received.  Should
Kattack be utilized in the debrief?  Can we get more Kattack participation?

 

I'm going to ask someone to be my proxy for voting at this meeting.  Perhaps
others might want to do that too.  Hopefully that's acceptable to all of
you.  Since Tom asked people to come to their placed at 7:00, I'm suggesting
the meeting start at 8:00.

 

Thanks for your help with fleet business.  That fleet business gets more
cumbersome as our fleet gets bigger.  A good problem to have though, right?
If you'd like to share your thoughts with the fleet, this week I'd invite
you to broadcast your views via Sonar.list even if might create a bit of
Sonar.list email clutter.

 

More soon,

MF

 

 

 

 

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