2025 One-off Sailing Events » Commodore's Challenge

The 2025 Commodore's Challenge will be a teams race where each team must comprise at least three boats as follows:

• At least one boat must be slow fleet (PY 1141 or more)
• At least one boat must be fast fleet (PY 1140 or less)
• At least one boat must be a single hander.
• At least one boat must be multi-crew.

Multi-crew boats may carry more than one helm plus one crew and there is no restriction on changing the helm during the race.

The Race:

The race will be either a Pursuit or an Average Lap race. The format that most suits the conditions will be decided on the day.

Scoring and Awards:

The race will be scored as normal; each boat is given a score (1, 2, 3, 4, etc) which is based upon finishing position in a pursuit race or the order of corrected time in an average lap race.

Individual prizes will be awarded to:

• The overall winning boat.
• The overall runner up.
• The lowest scoring boat helmed solely by a Cadet or a Novice.

The team that wins the Commodore's Challenge will be decided as follows:

• Any boat that includes at least one Novice or Cadet in its crew will have its score reduced by 25% - thus such a boat finishing 10th will have its score adjusted to 7.5.
• Any boat that is helmed throughout the race by a Novice or a Cadet will have its score reduced by 50% - thus such a boat finishing 10th will have its score adjusted to 5.0.
• The score for each team will be the mean of the sum of the scores for its individual boats after the above adjustments have been applied.
• The team with the lowest score thus calculated will win the Commodore's Challenge.
• In the event of a tie, the team with more Cadets and Novices will win.
• In the event that the tie persists, the team which has the best individual boat result will win.

(Novice is as defined in Addendum A to the Club's 2025 Sailing Instructions)

HW: 20:21

Last updated 2:39pm on 3 February 2025