Friday 18 - Saturday 19 February 2022
The Pittwater Secondary Schools Teams Racing Regatta will once again take place in 2022! This event sees Pittwater based school sailing teams compete for the ‘Pittwater Cup’. Other schools from the Sydney area may also be invited to compete.
The regatta will be held over two days, on a Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. The main objective for this event is to give school sailing teams a chance to refine their skills ahead of upcoming State and National competitions.
To make this regatta affordable and logistically possible, the Organising Authority (Royal Prince Alfred Yacht Club) requires schools to support the event with the provision of boats (Pacer dinghies) and volunteer helpers.
Notice of Race
Available Soon
Sailing Instructions
To be posted here no later than 1700 hrs on Thursday 17th February 2022.
Regatta Entry
Please register your school sailing team before 1700 hrs on Friday 11th February 2022. You will need to have the Australian Sailing numbers of all competing sailors submitted. You can search for a sailor’s AS number here.
Temporary Participant Membership – ‘Sail Pass’
All participating sailors must have an active Australian Sailing number by being an active member of an affiliated club. If a participant does not have a membership with an affiliated club, they can register for a free temporary sailing membership on the selected race days using RPAYC SailPass.
Friday 18th February 2022
- 1530 – Registration
- 1615 – Competitor Briefing
- 1700 – First Warning Signal
- 1840 – Time of Last Warning Signal
Saturday 19th February 2022
- 1200 – Competitor Briefing
- 1300 – First Warning Signal
- 1700 – Time of Last Warning Signal
- ASAP after racing – Presentation
TBC
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
