Policies & Procedures
Each Member Club entering sailors shall provide a safety boat.
Regatta Management
Race Time
Under ‘Schedule of Events’, all NORs include the sentence “Schedule subject to change pending conditions of the day.”
Should weather delay the times of the original schedule, the host club may amend the time of the last race to accommodate an extra race.
Regatta Registration
Registration for most PGJSA events will be available online only at www.pgjsa.org. Please refer to the Application section of the NORs to determine which regattas your junior sailors must register for online.
Registration desks on the day of the specified events will have no paper registration forms or means of accepting entry fees. Registration the day of the event will still be required to be completed online and accepted only up until the start of the scheduled Skippers’ Meeting.
All racers are encouraged to register for the regattas as early into the season as possible. All forms and payment must be completed online by 11:59 pm three days prior to the event.
Anyone who registers after 11:59 pm three days prior to the event will incur an additional late fee of $20.
Cancellation with refund will be permitted up until the scheduled start of the Skippers’ Meeting or by contacting the PGJSA by email (prior to the skippers meeting) indicating you like to withdraw from the event at info@pgjsa.org. Contacting the club and leaving a message or emailing them is not a proper withdrawal and may not be honored.
Regatta Check-In
All competitors, both skipper and crew, shall appear in person to confirm registration with regatta management during the designated check-in time.
Both skipper and crew must be properly registered and both entry fees paid prior to the scheduled start of the Skippers’ Meeting or their registration will be considered cancelled. The scores may be included for the event but will not be included for the Championship Series.
Sail number changes from what appears on the registration form are to be made online by the sailor, not the host club, prior to the first race. In addition, sailors are to report their sail number change to the check in staff and the Race Committee.
NB: Sailors who fail to correct their sail numbers will be disqualified.
Age Rules:
Optimist age rules apply with this exception: Sailors who begin the Series in a fleet shall remain in that fleet regardless of a mid-series birthday.
Applicants for all classes (except Sunfish Doubles) may not turn 19 years of age in the year of the event. Sunfish Doubles, skipper and crew, must be 8 years old in the year of the event and must not turn 14 in the year of the event.
Scoring
Qualifiers: The final standings of each regatta will be calculated using the Low- Point Scoring System-Appendix A of the racing rules. There will be NO throw-outs.
In the event that a regatta is cancelled completely (and not postponed or rescheduled), a sailor who was registered and checked in at that regatta will still be allowed to qualify for the Championship Regatta in their given class as long as they have received a finishing score in 2 other qualifier regattas.
Championship Regatta: The Low-Point Scoring System-Appendix A of the racing rules will be used to calculate the final standings. There will be ONE throw-out if 5 or more races are sailed. PGJSA Championship scoring policies will apply for all classes.
The results of the Championship Regatta will be used to the final Series standings as defined by the PGJSA Series Rules and Guidelines. Final rankings will be calculated using Low-Point Scoring.
Protests
Protesting sailors must properly complete the US Sailing Protest Form at the designated area , including drawings, without supervision or input from their coaches, other sailors or family members.
NB: Anyone having done so will have their protest disqualified.
Coaches from the protesting clubs may not be present during the protest hearing unless called upon by the Protest Committee.
To avoid a witness from a sailor’s own club being considered an interested party, coaches are encouraged to advise their sailors to call out at the time of the incident for witnesses other than from their own club.
Race Committee and Protest Committee members are to be mutually exclusive.
For all PGJSA Qualifier Events and Championship, the Protest Committee shall be formed by the PGJSA Race Committee Chair or, in his absence, a PGJSA Executive Officer. In the absence of both the PGJSA Race Committee Chair and a PGJSA Executive Officer, the host club’s PRO shall form the Protest Committee from those on the PGJSA Protest Committee Roster. The Protest Committee must consist of at least 3 qualified members. Only 1 member may be from the host club. No member of the Protest Committee is to be from the protesting clubs.