2025 One-off Sailing Events » Family and Commodore's Challenge Day

The Family and Commodore's Challenge Day will include fun for Cadets in the forenoon (on the water, weather permitting), the Commodore's Challenge (a teams race) in the afternoon followed by a barbecue. This will be a day for the whole membership. Hopefully, you and all family members will find something to take part in or help with. Cadet members under the age of 11 must have a parent or responsible adult present.

Low Water: 13:24

Morning - from 11:00

• Fair Weather: Oppi race - paddling or sailing
• Too Windy: rounders or cricket on the park or the beach.

For those who enjoy, or would like to try, rowing, the Club Gig will also be available.

Please bring suitable clothing.

There will then be an Egg Drop competition before lunch.

Remember to bring your own lunch.

Afternoon - from 14:30

• A Teams Race with a volunteer duty crew - HW: 17:23 - Format of race is below; Duty Roster is at the foot of this page if you are logged in (VOLUNTEERs please)

Evening - from 17:00

• A barbecue will be available for those who book, details here.

Format of Teams Race

Teams:

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 A3 to the Club's 2024 Sailing Instructions)

Last updated 9:53am on 26 May 2025