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RACING Living on the Chesapeake Bay provides access to some of the best Junior Racing in the Nation. Below is a compilation of information for the Junior Sailor interested in competitive racing.
Chesapeake Bay Yacht Racing Association (CBYRA) and HYC Junior Racing Program The Racing Junior program is dedicated to perpetuating and reinforcing a racing program within which Juniors may participate in competitive racing with their peers in CBYRA sanctioned events. The Racing Program may be conducted in any one-design type boat which the Member Club hosting the regatta chooses to start. For 2003, the following classes for CBYRA Junior High Point scoring and awards: Optimist, Laser, Laser Radial, 420, FJ and Byte. In order for a class to retain its sanctioned status in any one year, 1. at least four skippers in the class should have been CBYRA members in the previous year, 2. at least six skippers should be registered as CBYRA individual or family members for the current year. Failure of a class to meet the minimum membership requirements for consecutive years shall cause the class to be removed from the list of sanctioned classes of CBYRA. A new application for class sanctioning will be required before the class is eligible for sanctioning. CBYRA SANCTIONED REGATTA ENTRY PROCEDURES: Most clubs accept entry forms on the day of the race. However, some clubs may require the entry forms to reach them several days prior to race day. It is up to the individual competitor to find out the entry requirements for a particular race. Racing Juniors competing for High Point trophy awards should be sure to put both their 6-digit CBYRA member number and the correct class number on their entry forms. If you fail to include your CBYRA number and the proper class number, you might not be scored for the Junior High Point competition. CBYRA HIGH POINT COMPETITION Host clubs decide which classes will be started in their regattas and what, if any, individual qualifications will be required in order to participate. In addition to individual regatta awards provided by the host club, junior sailors have the opportunity to compete on a Bay-wide basis for CBYRA High Point Championship awards. To qualify for a High Point Trophy award in any class, a skipper must: 1. Be a Racing Junior, as defined above, which includes affiliation (as defined above) with a CBYRA member club. 2. Be a member of the regional class organization, if any. 3. Be scored as a competitor, in the class, during not less than five (5) CBYRA-sanctioned events, one of which must be sailed outside the Junior's home club. 4. Act as helmsman throughout each race, except for short periods of time or during emergencies when the skipper may be busy elsewhere in the boat. Except as modified here, scoring shall be done on a basis comparable to that by which High Point scores are determined in the One-Design Division, but no bonus factor shall be applied. To count for High Point scoring purposes, a race must be listed as a CBYRA sanctioned event for the class so that all class members are notified of the opportunity to sail in the event. At least three (3) Racing Juniors must be recorded as participating in an event in order to earn High Point Trophy points as a junior, so it is important to check to see that all Juniors have registered as such by using the class name and number on the regatta entry blank. It is also a good idea to remind the people at the regatta registration desk that you want to be scored for Junior High Point and be sure they plan to note the juniors participating in the event on the score sheet and send the results to the High Point Scorer within 7 days of the race. It is the host club's responsibility to properly tabulate and submit the scores to the HIGH POINT SCORER after the regatta. Optimist submitted overall not by Fleets.
In previous years, a number of junior sailors have sailed in sufficient events to win High Point awards, but failed to qualify for these prestigious awards because they didn't join CBYRA or get properly recorded as qualified Juniors. Make sure this doesn't happen to you! Join early and make sure your race entries are properly filled out.
HYC Traveling Guidelines Traveling to "away regattas" is very educational for the junior sailor. It promotes self-confidence through competition in unfamiliar surroundings, and accountability via the process of getting to and from the event with all the necessary gear. Plus the experience always yields new friends and memorable experiences. Traveling to "away regattas" is also a good opportunity for parents to make new friends or to network for the future regattas. This is often the best time for sailors and parents to learn about how certain events are scored, what events count toward perpetual trophies, and so on. Parents can make arrangements to take turns transporting and chaperoning kids, and of course pulling trailers. Basic Travel Polices and Guidelines I . The Junior Program Chairman or designee shall approve use of the trailer. 2. The space on trailers is limited and it will be first come, first serve, so sign up for the trips early! If your parents pull a trailer you will be guaranteed a spot on the trailer for that regatta. 3 . All parents with students who are planning to travel to regattas are strongly encouraged to tow boats or chaperone, for at least one event. 4. Race schedules will be given out at the beginning of the summer and reminder notices will be given about one week in advance of each event. 5. During the Junior Program, all HYC boats used in regattas must be checked out by the Head Instructor prior to loading on the trailer. At all other times, use must be approved by the Junior Program Chairman or designee. Use of Club boats will be limited to HYC Junior members whose parents must sign a HYC release form. 6. Each sailor is responsible for the boat and gear checked out until it is returned to HYC in equal or better condition than before its use. This includes securing all lines, masts, and hulls to the trailer for transport. 7. HYC boats must be unloaded from the trailer upon returning to HYC.
USODA Fleets - United States Optimist Dinghy AssociationFLEET FOR ALL AGES...
Red Fleet 13-15 USODA Green Fleet Policy Statement Green fleet is a special fleet for
novices. It has two purposes: The goal of the policy is to build the fleet from the bottom up. It would be unfair to competitors and detrimental to the sport of Optimist sailing to permit green fleet practices that unduly favor the most talented green fleet skippers. To further the purpose of encouraging novice sailors, regatta hosts should strive to award more trophies in green fleet than would normally be awarded in similarly sized red, blue, or white fleets. Regatta officials are urged to uphold these green fleet objectives by limiting green fleet participation to appropriate skippers. Sailing instructions should clearly state those restrictions. Also, if it is chosen to permit green fleet coaching while racing, the sailing instructions should clearly address this issue. Regional sailing authorities may approve variations from these criteria, in order to satisfy their unique regional requirements. USODA Recommended and HYC adopted Sailing Instructions for Green Fleet Green fleet is open to skippers who meet all of the following criteria: 1 . Skippers must be age 15 or under on December 31st of the current year. 2. Upon winning three or more green fleet trophies in either 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place, or any combination thereof, a skipper shall advance to their appropriate age group fleet. 3 . Skippers may not previously have raced outside of green fleet (i.e. in red, blue, white, or similar advanced fleets), except that participation in red, blue, white or similar advanced fleets in regattas at which no green fleet was offered shall not prevent a sailor from returning to and racing green fleet, provided the sailor continues to meet all other green fleet eligibility criteria. 4. Coaching of green fleet skippers while racing is permitted, however coaches shall be limited to skippers in the bottom half of the fleet in any given race. Coach boats shall neither create wakes nor otherwise interfere with competitors. Violation of this instruction may result in any penalty, which the jury deems appropriate, up to, and including the disqualification of the coached skipper from the regatta. To further the purpose of encouraging novice sailors, regatta hosts should strive to award more trophies in green fleet than would normally be awarded in similarly sized red, blue, or white fleets.
CBYRA AND US SAILING LADDER CHAMPIONSHIPSThe Chesapeake Bay Yacht Racing Association conducts four junior "ladder" championship events, which are qualifying events for US SAILING championships. The CBYRA champions advance to Area C Semifinals, competing against representatives of Barnegat Bay YRA, North Jersey YRA and Mid Atlantic YRA. The CBYRA Midget Champion advances to the Middle Atlantic Midget Championship, competing against representatives of Associations from Area C and Area B. THE FOLLOWING CBYRA EVENTS, IN ADDITION TO BEING ELIMINATIONS FOR THE US SAILING OR OTHER LADDER CHAMPIONSHIPS, ARE CBYRA CHAMPIONSHIPS IN THEIR OWN RIGHT. SEARS CUP The Sears Cup competition is open to crews of three (3) or more persons who have reached their thirteenth birthday and have not reached their nineteenth birthday by December 31. BEMIS TROPHY The F. Gregg Bemis Trophy competition is open to crews of two (2) who meet the same age requirements as for the Sears Cup. In 2002, the Bemis was sailed in the CC 420. SMYTHE TROPHY The D. Verner Smythe Trophy competition is open to single-handed skippers who meet the same age requirements as for the Sears Cup. In 2003, the Smythe was sailed in Lasers. MIDDLE ATLANTIC MIDGET CHAMPIONSHIP This championship is open to boys and girls who will not have reached their fifteenth birthday as of December 31. This event includes double-handed and single-handed divisions. The CBYRA single-handed eliminations will be sailed in Optimists and the double-handed will be sailed in CC 420's. MASSACHUSETTS BAY TROPHY The Massachusetts Bay Trophy competition is open to board sailors who meet the same age requirements as for the Sears Cup. Juniors who wish to participate in the US SAILING Finals should contact Ms. Lee Parks at US SAILING, Box 1260, Portsmouth, RI 02871 -or- 401-683-0800. ELIGIBILITY FOR US SAILING LADDER CHAMPIONSHIPS 1. All participants, skippers and crew, must be members or children of members of CBYRA member clubs. 2. The skipper, of course, must be a member of the club which he or she is representing. The crew may belong to any CBYRA member club. This rule applies at all levels of competition including the CBYRA championships. 3. All participants must be racing junior members of CBYRA. 4. No skipper or crew member, after participating in a club or CBYRA elimination for one of the events, may be a representative for another club or association for the same event in that year. A club belonging to more than one YRA may enter a crew in only one YRA elimination. 5. In order to participate, skippers and crews must become, if not already, individual members of US SAILING (or Family or Associate members if eligible). 6. The members of the crew in the US SAILING finals must be the same as those competing in the Area semifinals.
CBOT - Chesapeake Bay Optimist TeamThe Chesapeake Bay Optimist Team (CBOT) is run under the auspices of CBYRA. Its mission is to practice together and to travel as a team to major regattas. The team consists of the prior years returning members and the top finishers from last years Optimist High Point Competition for a total of 12 members. Members must belong to CBYRA. However, they will still participate under the burgee of their yacht club. CBOT is managed and funded by the parents of the team members. Chesapeake Bay Optimist Team "Building friendships with people around the country and the world" C B 0 T History The Chesapeake Bay Optimist Team, originally known as "Top-Gun", was founded in 1994 by several families that kept seeing each other at major regattas. These included the Garrett's (FBYC), Antel's (SSA), MacMullin's (SSA), Shubert's (SSA), James' (TAYC), and Kuppersmith's (GIYC), who decided to pool their resources, so that they could provide new opportunities for their sailors and provide coaching for the sailors who were traveling to regattas outside the Bay. While each of the families came from a club with a strong sailing program, none of the programs were big enough to support a traveling team. The member families car-pooled and "boat-pooled" to get the first season under way. The goal of the group was to provide a way for Chesapeake Bay sailors to train and travel to several regional and national regattas. In 1995, the group asked CBYRA to recognize the concept of a Bay-wide Optimist racing team and to assist with the purchase of a team boat trailer. CBYRA assented, with the condition that the makeup of the team be determined by an objective set of qualifications, that being the CBYRA high point list. The original families became the core of C B 0 T and in succeeding years, as sailors withdrew, new sailors were invited to join based on their standings in that year's high point list. Once on the team, re-qualification was not required because C B 0 T sailors often missed key high point regattas. C B 0 T is currently limited to 12 sailors equal to the number of boat slots on the trailer.
What is CB0T C B 0 T is a "federation" of families with a common interest in youth sailing. The families share the enjoyment of competitive sailing and work together to provide a vehicle through which Chesapeake Bay sailors can train together, and travel to several regional and national regattas. C B 0 T offers many advantages to families whose children aspire to become top-notch sailors. It provides dedicated coaching for practice and regattas during the summer season. It provides a team spirit that lives on throughout the year at off season regattas and practices. It includes a parental support group that comes to the aid of parents whose schedule prevents participation in each and every event. C B 0 T has been a goal and an incentive to many young sailors. And lastly, C B 0 T is a team that sailors are proud to be a part of How do you become a team member? Invitations to join C B 0 T go to sailors in the order of their position on the CBYRA high point list. C B 0 T is limited to 12 sailors. C B 0 T members do not have to re-qualify each year unless they elect to sit out a season. How is C B 0 T organized? C B 0 T is led by a volunteer parent who is responsible for the overall coordination of the team's activities for communication with the member families and CBYRA yacht clubs, and for leading the search for a coach. A parent from a separate family serves as Treasurer. The coach works full time for approximately 30-35 service days from mid June through early August and is responsible for organized practices and coaching regattas. The C B 0 T schedule is determined by the coach in consultation with the parents. Where does C B 0 T operate? When C B 0 T is not on the road at regattas (approx. 50% of the coaching days), practices are held at one of several yacht clubs that make their facilities available to the Team. The mid-Bay region (Annapolis to Oxford) has been the focus for these practices because the vast majority of the team members reside in that area. Practices are normally held at AYC, SSA or TAYC although HYC in the southern Bay has also been the site for. Out-of-town sailors are hosted by a local family during practice periods. This "camping out" is usually great fun for the kids (and parents). What are the parent's responsibilities? C B 0 T can only operate with parental involvement. C B 0 T is not a camp; it requires commitment from the parents. Each family must be able and willing to spend 5-1 0 volunteer days supporting the Team over the course of each season. Throughout the summer, parents volunteer to host sleepovers, tow the C B 0 T trailer, assist at regattas, loan coach boats, and drive car-pools. Parents do not necessarily participate in all regattas. At some, only a few parents serve as chaperones and support crew. What are the coach's responsible? The C B 0 T coach provides a stimulating and challenging racing program using a positive attitude and supportive structure geared toward adolescent children. The coach teaches racing strategy, boat handling techniques and racing rules through on-water and off-water teaching sessions. As importantly, the coach teaches and instills a sense of sportsmanship, ethics and teamwork. The coach participates in all team-scheduled regattas. What does it cost? C B 0 T is solely supported by parents funding. Team fees pay for trailer-related expenses, coach's salary and travel expenses, reimbursement of towing the C B 0 T trailer, and other incidental team expenses. In recent years, this expense has been $600 - $900 and only the year's expenses are charged to the families. In addition, parents are responsible for costs associated with attending regattas (entry fees, transportation and lodging). This varies from year to year depending on the regatta schedule, venue and preference for food and lodging.
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