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John Morrow(Chairman) Tom Batty Bill Brundige Ken Kleinschrodt Chip MacMillan John Matthews Karen F. Reisch David Taylor Bud Thurman Jim Tichenor ASSOCIATE MEMBERS Clinton Edwards (BWYC) |
Gulf Yachting Association
The GYA Race Management Committee is chartered under Article VII, Section 7 of the GYA Bylaws. The duties of this committee are to "promote excellence in race management within the GYA, administer the competition for the GYA trophy for excellence in race management, investigate reports of improper race management as set forth in the Regulations for Sanctioned Events (available at www.GYA.org), and provide assistance and advice on race administration." GYA Race Management Award. This trophy is awarded each year, at the Annual Awards Banquet, to the GYA member club exhibiting the most outstanding race management at an event during the previous year. Recent events that have won the award for excellence in race management include:
All GYA clubs are encouraged to submit regattas run at their clubs for consideration for this prestigious award that is presented at the Opening Regatta each year. Further information about this competition and required forms for the submission of an event may be downloaded here (in MSWord format - you may need to RIGHT CLICK on the link and select "SAVE TARGET AS"). While it is certainly a great honor for a club to win this award, all clubs who enter generally find that they "win" just by entering. First, the fact that race committee members know that they are entering the competition tends to bring out the best effort in all involved with the event. Secondly, the ballots that the skippers submit are a great source of information that the club can use to improve their performance in future regattas. Standardizing Sailing Instructions. Recently the race management committee finished revising the sailing instructions that are used for the GYA Lipton Regatta. This revision incorporates both changes requested by last year's Lipton race committee as well changes resulting from the update to the Racing Rules of Sailing. The updated Lipton Standard Sailing Instructions are available here in MSWORD or HTML format. Race committees are encouraged to use these sailing instructions as a basis for writing sailing instructions for their own events, especially Capdevielle regattas. The International Sailing Federation has published a "generic" template for use as a starting point when developing sailing instructions. This document is available here in either HTML or MSWORD format. They have also published template for preparing a Notice of Race, available in MSWORD format. Information Dissemination. The RMC has developed an introductory seminar to acquaint prospective personnel with information about race management practices as well as providing refresher material for those that are currently active. The seminar is available here for download: GYAIntroRM.ppt (572KB) The seminar in MS
PowerPoint format. We hope that any interested club will use this material to train it's own members. There were several significant changes to the rules in 2001 that apply to race management. The most important of these is the new starting sequence (rule 26) that replaces the old "system 2" that we have been used to for many years. Here's a link to the US Sailing web site that describes the new starting system in detail and discusses the benefits of the new system. US Sailing has put together a page with quite a few "tools" for race management. Many forms are available as are images of course diagrams, evaluations of several regatta scoring programs and many links to other race management related sites. In 1999 US Sailing implemented a certified race officer program to replace the currently recognized Senior Race Officer and Club Race Officer designations. The new program will certify race officers at three levels: · Certified Club Race Officer · Certified Regional Race Officer, and · Certified National Race Officer. Click here for more information about the race officer certification program. Constructive comments and suggestions are always welcome! Let us know how we can help improve the quality of racing within the Gulf Yachting Association. Updated 07/Sep/07 to fix Lipton SI Courses, add Associate
members and fix broken links to USSailing site. |
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Membership 
The Gulf Yachting Association
was founded to promote interclub sailboat racing between member clubs.