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2006 –
2007 SUPPLEMENTAL RULES FOR
PACIFIC COAST INTERSCHOLASTIC SAILING ASSOCIATION
“PCISA”
These Supplemental Rules are in addition to the procedural Rules for Interscholastic Sailing Competition sponsored by the Interscholastic Sailing Association.
1. Organization:
1.1 District representatives are members of the ISSA board.
1.2 Area representatives are appointed to represent the schools within their specific area.
(San Diego, Newport Beach, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Monterey, Palo Alto, Richmond, Oakland & Hawaii)
1.3 An annual PCISA meeting will be held in September of each year to establish the calendar and modification of any supplemental rules.
2. Eligibility:
2.1 All schools must be members in good standing of PCISA.
2.2 All competitors must be full-time students, in the 8th grade or higher, of the school they represent, and, subject to the academia, and discipline requirements of that school.
2.3 An 8th grade student attending a feeder school to the high school may sail the non-qualifying regattas (the five (5) 10% regattas). If a school enters a JV team and/or third team, an 8th grade student may not sail for any team.
2.4 Each team will be allowed one substitute, who is an eligible high school sailor, for a crew in order to complete a two-man or four-man team. This substitute may only sail in the non-qualifying high school regattas (five 10% regattas).
2.5 Home school student (s) may participate upon approval of PCISA President by declaring the student (s) associated with a team within the student‘s school district.
3. Boats:
3.1 Club FJ’s shall be used for all two-man events for California events only. The regattas shall be round robin. Each team must bring one boat with sails and equipment, in good working order. (PCISA may provide sails).
4. Conduct of Regattas:
4.1 Personnel: Two individuals shall constitute a dinghy crew and can compete in one division A or B in the event a school only has one division, a DNS shall be scored in the other division.
4.2 Junior Varsity: A school must obtain approval from PCISA prior to competing as a JV team. A school must have a minimum of 13 full-time members and be participating in an active sailing program.
4.3 Junior Varsity: In order to qualify for a third team, a school must have a minimum of 21 full-time members that are participating in an active sailing program and approval by the PCISA President for each event. All JV teams and third teams will only be allowed based upon fleet size and venue capacity.
4.4 Junior Varsity: A junior varsity team may sail in the non-qualifying events, which consist of five (5) regattas (Anteater, Rose Bowl, Cardinal, Gaucho and Sea Otter). A junior varsity sailor may not transfer to the varsity during the event.
5. Substitutions:
5.1 In fleet racing there shall be no limitations on substitutions during a regatta except, when there are two or more divisions, an individual:
A. After competing as a skipper, shall not sail in any other Division, but
B. After as crew may shift to another Division as skipper or crew but thereafter sail only in that Division.
6. Protest:
6.1 A boat intending to protest shall always inform the other boat at the first reasonable opportunity. When her protest concerns an incident in the racing area that she is involved in or sees, she shall hail the word “Protest” at the first reasonable opportunity. When the identity of the protested boat could be uncertain, the boat’s sail number shall be included in the hail. Failure of a hailed boat to hear the hail shall not, by itself, be grounds for closing the protest (Replaces RRS 61.1(a).
6.2 The Protest Committee may hear protests in between races.
7. Discipline:
7.1 No contestant shall use, either on or off the water, alcoholic beverages (beer, wine, distilled spirits or use any controlled substance (marijuana, cocaine, etc.), the possession of which is unlawful. Infringements of this regulation will be the basis for disciplinary action.
7.2 No contestant shall use foul language. Continued infringement of this regulation will be the basis for disciplinary action.
8. Qualification – Double-handed:
8.1 10% score for the best three of five events at the Anteater, Rose Bowl, Cardinal, Gaucho and Sea Otter Regattas.
8.2 Southern California schools will participate and count at least 3 of the 5 PCISA regattas (any additional regattas will be counted) for a 30% score.
8.3 Northern California schools must also participate in 3 of the 5 NorCal regattas and will qualify a minimum of 5 schools at the PCC’s. The 30% score determined by the PCISA regattas.
8.4 Hawaiian schools must participate in at least two Hawaiian series or PCISA events in order to qualify for the PCC’s. The PCISA President will determine the 30% score.
8.5 70% score for the Pacific Coast Championships. The PCC’s will be limited to 20 schools from California and 2 schools from Hawaii.
8.6 One team (A & B) from each eligible and qualifying PCISA member school is eligible based upon the above requirements.
8.7 The Silver Championship Regatta will not allow a sailor who has been a skipper in more than one 10% regatta in the gold fleet during the current PCISA season to participate as a skipper or crew.
9. Qualification – Single-handed:
9.1 One qualifier regatta sailed in both full rig and radial rig lasers shall be held prior to the Cressy.
10. Qualification – Team Racing:
10.1 One team race regatta shall be held in the spring.
11. Open Regattas:
11.1 All open regattas will be available to any school. An open spring championship will be scheduled.
12. Gold & Silver:
12.1 Teams at PCISA regattas will sail in either Gold or Silver. At the beginning of each season, PCISA representatives will seed the teams in the Gold and Silver fleets. Once in each fleet, any team may request to move, however, the top three teams in Silver and the bottom three Gold teams will be given consideration for a move.
13. PCISA (10% Regattas):
13.1 All PCISA (10% regattas) entries must be submitted by Monday, 5:00 PM, preceding the weekend event.
14. The Disney Cup:
14.1 An overall trophy will be awarded to the top school and awarded points for 9 regattas. Conditions are available here.
1 PCC’s
5 PCISA’s Regattas
2 Cressy Eliminations
1 Baker Eliminations