Vineyard Haven Herreshoff 12.5 summer series
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The summer results are is. Congratulations to the following sailors:
1st: Whirlwind / Phil Hale
2nd: Moonshadow / Frank Sutula
3rd: Providence / Stuart and Beverly Halmpert
Thanks must go to Phil Hale for all his hard work and dedication this summer. Without him this summers racing would not have happened.
SAILING INSTRUCTIONS
1 RULES
The Vineyard Haven H12.5 Summer series will be governed by the rules as defined in the Racing Rules of Sailing 2020-2024.
Individuals’ boats please come by the committee boat to register you boats and helms name first race of a day.
Anyone to be found using inappropriate language when communicating with the race committee will be in breach of rule 69 of the sailing rules and will be disqualified from the remainder of the seasons racing.
2 ENTRIES
Entry is open to all Herreshoff 12.5’s.
3 NOTICES TO COMPETITORS
Notices to competitors will be posted on the Sail Martha’s Vineyard website www.sailmv.org
4 SIGNALS MADE ASHORE
There will be no signals made ashore. Postponement or cancellation information will be available at 1200 hrs on each race day on the vineyard haven H12.5 summer series page on the Sail MV website and by a group text message.
5 SCHEDULE OF RACES
The first gun for the first class will be at 1400 hrs. each Saturday with the first day of racing on first Saturday 29th June, and the last day of racing on Saturday August 31st
6 RACING AREA
The racing area will be in the waters of Vineyard Haven.
7 COURSES and MARKS
The race course will be around either coast guard marks or marks designated by the race committee. Racing will always finish at the windward mark unless stated by the race committee. All course marks are to be pasts to port. The number of laps will be shown by the flying of the relevant number pennant (shown below), under the orange line flag aboard the committee boat. The start will between the orange flag on the committee boat and a red flagged pin end buoy. The windward mark will be a yellow flagged buoy as close to directly up wind of the pin end mark. This make will also be used as the finish mark unless stated by the committee boat, boats will finish with the committee boat to their starboard hand side.
8 STARTING AND FINISHING LINES; STARTING SYSTEM
The starting and finishing lines will be between an orange flag on the Committee Boat at the starboard end of the line and either an orange buoy or one of the marks of the course at the port end.
The starting sequence shall be:
Pre start: 5 short warning signals
5 Minutes Before Start 5 Long
4 Minutes Before Start 4 Long
1 Minute Before Start 1 Long
Start 1 Long
Flags: We will be using the 5-4-1-start system.
5: Class flag flown (white with a large H)
4: P flag Flown 
1: P flag lowered
Go: Class Flag lowered
OCS: X flag flown until all OCS craft re-crossed the line. 
General recall: 1st substitute pennant flown and start sequence begins again for all competitors. 
There may be an inflated orange buoy tethered approximately six feet astern of the Race Committee Boat. This buoy and its painter shall be considered extensions of the Race Committee Boat.
9 TIME LIMIT
The time limit for each race will be one hour for the first boat to finish. Boats finishing more than twenty minutes after the first boat that sails the course finishes will be scored DNF. This changes Rule 35.
10 PROTESTS
A boat intending to protest another boat will be required to follow the conditions set forth in Rule 61 except that no red flag will be required. Sail MV’s will collect the protest from the boats involved, including witness statements. The final decision will be made by a jury of VH h12.5 sailors.
11 SCORING
All H-12’s will be scored boat for boat. Both days of the Vineyard Cup weekend will count for the summer Series scores.
12 SAFETY
All competitors shall wear a personal flotation device (“PFD”) and have a working VHF radio aboard. All on water race communications will be done via VHF channel 73.
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