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The 7th Annual
St Maarten
North Sails Regatta
Caribbean One Design Keelboat Championships
to be held on
21 & 22 June 2008
NOTICE OF RACE
Caribbean One Design Keelboat Championships
Date: Saturday June 21st and Sunday June 22nd 2008
Place: Simpson Bay Lagoon, St.Maarten
The regatta is organized by the St.Maarten Yacht Club and Lagoon Sailboat Rentals N.V. The regatta will be governed by the Racing Rules of Sailing of ISAF (2005-2008), the prescriptions of the Netherlands Antilles Sailing Federation (NASAF), this notice of race and by the sailing Instructions.
The regatta will be sailed as a Category “C” event
The regatta will be sailed in Lagoon Sailboat Rentals one-design fleet of identical Sun Fast 20 boats.
The regatta will be open to up to 18 Teams of not less than 3 and not more than 4 persons per team.
Teams must wear co-ordinated coloured shirts or outfits, which have the function of identifying the teams during sailing to the committee and spectators. For this reason the shirts should be distinct colours. The regatta will not provide for these shirts or outfits. Please inform us of the colours or print that your team will be wearing.
Registration, welcoming party and the skippers briefing will be on Friday June 20th at 6.00pm, at the St.Maarten Yacht Club. Entrants will be required to sign document that excludes liabilities for Lagoon Sailboat Rental N.V and the St.Maarten Yacht Club.
Racing will not start before 9am.on Saturday January 21st. The regatta will either be sailed in a 2-pool format, which will result in a final of a Gold Fleet and a Silver Fleet or in a one fleet rotation of boats.
Teams must bring their own protest flags as none will be provided by the regatta.
Prizes will be awarded after the racing on Sunday June 22nd at the St.Maarten Yacht Club.
The boat rental for the regatta is $300.00US per team and a $200.00US damage deposit must be paid at registration. Teams may enter by sending in their entry information to the following Email: director@bigboatseries.com.
Phone: (599)-543-6091 or (599)-557-0714 or (599)-588-2474
For entry information we need name of skipper, team name, how many in team, country and team colour.
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2007 North Sails Regatta Report
Chris Rosenberg comes out on top once again.
The North Sails Caribbean Keelboat Championships proved once again to be an event like no other.
With competitive sailing and great camaraderie between competitors this event was a complete success.
The morning started out with competitors, and committee members heading out to the spectator boat Explorer
which served as a floating observation point for the weekend.
A total of 18 races were sailed over the weekend and by the end of the day on Saturday the 18 teams were divided
into two fleets, Gold and Silver.
In the gold fleet Chris Rosenberg from team Vertical Yachts gave an outstanding performance with 4 first places out of
6 total races.
Chris, who was the 2006 winner of the North Sails Regatta, was pleased to be at this event once again and during his
acceptance speech thanked the organizers of the even for another wonderful year.
Local St.Maarten sailor, Frits Bus, placed second with his team Carib. Third place in this fleet was awarded to
the Stanton brothers Chris and Peter from St.Croix.
In the Silver fleet first place went to Donald Stollmeyer and team Bachannal Boys from Trinidad. Second and third
place were awarded to Team Scuba Shop of St.Maarten and lead by Simon Manley and Team Wadadli Too lead by Bernie Evan-Wong
of Antigua.
The all women’s team, and womens regatta winners for the past three years, which was lead by Emma Paull was unable to
repeat their win at this North Sails Regatta. They placed 2nd during their first race and made it into the gold fleet,
but were unable to place high enough land them in the winners seat.
The conditions on the water were ideal. Spectators aboard the floating observation point Exploror got to see some fantastic sailing by some of the Caribbean’s best sailors. The shouts of the spectators, a mix of resting competitors and sailing enthusiasts, could be heard each time one of the boats made another maneuver in attempts to better their opponents. Teams were able to use the floating dock alongside the Explorer to switch boats and teams with very little difficulties, which allowed the races to keep a steady pace for most of the day. This unique vantage point gave those participants who were not sailing at the time a great spot to watch the races and rest in between races.
The North Sails Regatta has been considered an innovative regatta model and this event has been copied by other territories. This year besides the general competition format, the regatta introduced an umpiring model that may also turn heads. The island is fortunate to have a senior international judge in the person of David de Vries and by sheer coincidence and good fortune another senior judge and umpire, Mr. Rob Overton from the USA happened to be on the island.
Together these two designed a penalty system which builds on the existing rules and allows a combination of the existing penalty system that is initiated between competitors as well as one initiated by the on the water judges . The penalty levels are designed in such a manner that there is an incentive for compliance by participant initiated penalty calls. In this first try out the system worked very well and the overall consensus was that this highly competitive event with very close racing was saved from the possible antagonistic relations that sometimes occur in regattas at this level .
Between the on the water judges the floating observation point and the incredible racing by all 18 team, this event was unquestionable a success and will be one event that these sailors will add onto their schedule for the 2008 racing season.
Article by Heather Tackling, photographs by Jolyon Ferron
FINAL RESULTS -
North Sails Regatta 2007
Championship Gold Fleet
Name
Team
Race 2
Race 4 Race 6
Race 8 Race 10
Race 12 TOTAL 1
Chris Rosenberg
St Thomas
1
3
7
1
1
1
14
2
Frits Bus
St Maarten
3
7
3
3
2
5
23
3
Chris Stanton
St Croix
6
6
1
5
3
3
24
4
Luc Knol
St Maarten
7
1
8
4
5
2
27
5
Markku Harmala
St Barths
5
5
6
2
8
4
30
6
Paul Amon
Trinidad
4
9
2
8
6
5.8
34.8
7
Robbie Ferron
St Maarten
8
2
5
6
9
7
37
8
Emma Paull
Tortola
2
8
9
7
4
8
38
9
Shag Morton
St Maarten
9
4
4
9
7
6
39
Silver Fleet
Name
Team
Race 1 Race 3
Race 5
Race 7 Race 9
Race 11 TOTAL 1
Donald Stollmeyer
Trinidad
1.8
3
2
1
1
2
10.8
2
Simon Manley
St Maarten
8
2
3
2
2
3.4
20.4
3
Bernie Evan-Wong
Antigua
2
9
1
3
3
3 >
21
4
Mark Solomon
Grenada
4
6
5
4
7
1
27
5
Bernard Sillem
St Martin
5
5
4
5
4
5
28
6
Jack Bishop
St Thomas
1
4
6
7
9
4
31
7
Robbie Yearwood
Grenada
3
1
7
8
6
7
32
8
Nick Forsberg
St Lucia
6
7
8
9
5
6
41
9
Ben Jelic
St Lucia
7
8
9
6
8
8
46
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