Through the generous cooperation of Pittwater schools, we will have access to Pacers for local teams to compete in. Whilst all the boats are built to the pacer One Design Rule, there are some small variances amongst the boats such as age of boats, sails and rigging. In an ideal world we would have all teams swapping after each race and the same generations of Pacers versing one another (e.g Knox pacers v Knox pacers), however this would take up considerable amount of time and more additional resources as well as making it very difficult to for the race committee and finish boat to come up with a draw mapping all this out.

Should there be a major variance in speed between some of the boats, this may be addressed at the end of the round robin. Again, a sailors talent, smooth boat handling, strategy and tactics should help make up for any speed variance between the boats.

This event is run by the schools and the club. Assistance is asked from those schools competing to encourage parents to help throughout the weekend. We will require assistance with:

• Start & finish boat teams (flags, signals, result scribing)
• On-water umpiring
• Post race BBQ