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2005 Darwin Kupang Rally Sailing Instructions
As at March 28 2005
1 THE COURSE
The course shall be from the Start Line in Darwin Harbour to the Finish Line west of the town of Kupang located at approximately S10° 09.5’ and E 123° 34.3 “ South of the Kupang Light.
2 THE START
The rally will start at 1100 hours CST on Saturday July 23 2005. There will be one start for all divisions.
The Start Line will be a line located north of Emery Point in Darwin Harbour towards the Signal Mast of the Start Vessel at anchor that will be flying the Northern Territory flag and code flag "F". Competitors will leave the Start Vessel to Starboard. You will be advised at the pre rally briefing should there be any changes to the above.
The Start Vessel will carry out the following start procedure.
1050 Hours Warning Signal,
Code Flag "P" will be hoisted and may be accompanied by a sound signal.
1055 Hours Preparatory Signal,
Numeral Pennant 1 will be hoisted and may be accompanied by a sound signal.
1059 Hours Code Flag "P" will be lowered.
1100 Hours Starting Signal,
Numeral Pennant 1 will be lowered and may be accompanied by a sound signal.
1105 Hours
3 RECALLS
An individual recall shall be signalled and any yachts over the line at the Starting Signal must return and restart. Any yacht failing to respond to an individual recall shall be penalised by the addition of two hours to its elapsed time. A recall may be made by hailing the offending yacht by sail number and/or by name by either using VHF Channel 16, a loudhailer or by a committee boat coming alongside. A General Recall will be made by hoisting "First Substitute" and calling attention to this signal by two sound signals.
4 THE FINISH
Please contact the local committee on VHF when you are in the Roti Strait and they will be able to give directions regarding anchoring. After you have crossed the finish line at S. 10° 09.5’ E. 123° 34.3 “ 250 meters South of the Kupang Light (see the chart at the bottom of this page) and anchored your boat, you may come ashore for clearance into Indonesia.
Extreme care should be exercised in the Roti Strait approaching the town of Kupang a busy port. Large dredges and ferries frequently transit these areas. In addition, in these areas extra vigilance is required as there are usually large numbers of small unlit fishing canoes in the area that are difficult to see with radar.
5 TIME LIMIT
There is no time limit to the rally.
6 DIVISIONS
Entrants shall be divided into the following divisions at the discretion of the Rally Committee, whose decision shall be final.
Division I Racing Monohull
Division II Cruising Monohull
Division IIA Rally Monohull
Division III Racing Multihull
7 RULES
The Rally will be sailed under the International Regulations for the Prevention of Collisions at Sea and the SOLAS regulations as prescribed by The Indonesian sail Training Association APLI.
The use of automatic steering is permitted and when engine propulsion is used it must be logged, totalled and declared at the finish.
A Rally Division yacht shall not motor more than 50% of it's elapsed time and an amount of 30% of the total hours motored will be added to that yachts elapsed time prior to corrected time calculation.
8 HANDICAPS
All yachts will be allocated a Time Correction Factor based on the yacht's measurements.
The yacht's Elapsed Time will be multiplied by this T.C.F. to give a Corrected Time and placings.
9 SAFETY REGULATIONS
The safety of the vessel and its crew is the sole responsibility of the skipper.
All yachts shall have completed a non stop passage of at least 200 miles across open sea and shall comply with the SOLAS regulations as prescribed by APLI. Yachts must be presented with all safety equipment aboard for a Safety inspection prior to the Rally Briefing on the 20th July. Yachts may be required to undergo a second inspection on completion of the rally.
10 DECLARATIONS
All owners or skippers of yachts must sign a declaration form stating whether or not they have complied with these Sailing Instructions and hand it to a member of the Rally Committee within 10 hours of finishing in Kupangi.
11 PROTESTS
Yachts shall advise of their intention to protest on the radio schedule immediately following the incident. Protests shall be accompanied by a $10 fee, be completed on the correct form and handed to a member of the Rally Committee in Bali within 4 hours of finishing or transmitted via radio or any other means so as to reach the Rally Committee in Kupang by 1000 hours CST on 29th July 2005.
Any protest received after that time may not be considered. Protests will be heard by a Protest Jury whose decision will be final.
12 FLAGS
Yachts must display the Rally Pennant while racing, and when in Indonesian waters, the yacht's own national flag at the stern and the Indonesian flag of a size not less that the yacht's own national flag from the crosstrees. Note that the Indonesian flag is flown with red uppermost. When you enter the waters off Kupang you must display the code flag "Q" until you have been cleared by Indonesian Customs.
13 RADIO SCHEDULES
The following radio frequencies are required: 2182 KHz, 2524 KHz and 4483 KHz.
Yachts are required to report their positions twice a day.
The Rally Communication Frequencies are Primary 4483 KHz or Secondary 2524 KHz. All yachts must report in on the Radio Schedules at 0745 hours and 1615 hours while at sea Failure to do this without a valid reason may at the discretion of the Rally Committee result in a penalty of an increase in your elapsed time of up to 20%.
The procedure will be as follows; the radio relay vessel will call all yachts in alphabetical order as per your radio schedule list. When called give your latitude and longitude only,( in that order), be brief and concise as there may be many yachts to contact. If you have difficulty with your H.F. radio relay your position by VHF to a yacht equipped with H.F. prior to next schedule.
This position report should be relayed in its correct sequence during the H.F. sched to the Radio Relay Vessel by the relaying yacht.
All yachts that do not report in during the sched will be recalled at the end of the sched and any sightings or relayed positions will be clarified.
The base station in Kupang, call sign "Kupang Rally Control" which will conduct the radio scheds.
14 RETIREMENTS
Any yacht retiring from the rally shall make every effort to inform the Rally Committee by radio and continue to give position reports at each sched until safely in port, or if its radio is inoperative, at the earliest opportunity. Yachts returning to Darwin must first go to the Quarantine anchorage and clear Customs and Quarantine in the normal way for yachts arriving in Australia.
15 TIME ZONES
C.S.T. is Central Standard Time (Darwin Time) and will be used throughout the Rally for all communications and time keeping and is the time referred to in these instructions. CST. is GMT +9:30 , note that Kupang time is GMT + 8.
16 REJECTION OF ENTRIES
The Rally Committee reserves the right to reject any entry at any time up to the Preparatory Signal, in which case the entry fee may be refunded.
17 SPONSORS ADVERTISING
Yachts may seek and obtain sponsorship and advertise it in whatever form they choose.
18 AFTER FINISHING
At the finish you will be met by a committee boat or contacted on VHF Channel 16, which will guide you to the mooring area where you will complete Customs, Immigration and Quarantine formalities.
19 RECOMMENDED CHARTS
The following charts are recommended for the rally, AUS 27, AUS 413, AUS414, BA 942A, BA 946.
20 PRESENTATION DINNER
This will take place on Saturday 30th and the exact details will be available from the committee members in Kupang.
21 ADDITIONS OR ALTERATIONS
Any additions or alterations to these Instructions will be advised at the Pre Rally Briefing at the Darwin Sailing Club on the July 18th.
Ends
Kupang Finish Line