HOST CLUBS & DATES
Harken Challenge #1
California Yacht Club
4469 Admiralty Way
Marina del Ray, CA 90292
Phone: 310-823-4567
Fax: 310-822-3658
March 8th and 9th

Harken Challenge #2
San Francisco Yacht Club
98 Beach Road
Belvedere, CA 94920
Phone: 415-435-9133 Main Clubhouse
April 19th and 20th

Harken Challenge #3
Cabrillo Beach Yacht Club
211 West 22nd Street
San Pedro, CA 90731
May 17th and 18th

Harken Challenge #4
St. Francis Yacht Club
On the Marina
San Francisco, CA 94123
Phone: 415-563-6363
Fax: 415-563-8670
June 28th and 29th

ELIGIBILITY, ENTRY, ENTRY FEE & AWARDS
Each participant shall be under 16 years of age during the series and must be a member of the United States Optimist Dinghy Association.

Entries for the 2006 Harken Challenge Series must be filed with the Harken Challenge Series Chairman along with the entry fee for the series. An entry must also be completed for each individual regatta in accordance with the Notice of Race for each event.

There will be a $30 entry fee due the first day of the Harken Series, and no later than the third day (first day of the second regatta). The entry fee includes a T-shirt for each skipper.

Trophies for first, second, third, fourth, and fifth, overall (series), as well as, first, second and third in Red, Blue and White Fleet, will be donated by Harken and presented upon completion of the series.

Trophies for participation in the Green Fleet will be awarded to each Green Fleet Competitor.

CLASS MEMBERSHIP
Skippers must be a member in good standing of USODA.  Membership can be obtained on the USODA website at www.USODA.ORG .  Click on “Membership”.  Class membership is $29 if completed on-line, $35 if done by standard US Mail.  Send or present proof of Class membership with your entry form such as a copy of the on-line USODA Class Membership payment receipt, or the e-mail USODA Class membership confirmation.

RULES
Each regatta will be governed by The Racing Rules of Sailing, the prescriptions of US SAILING, the USODA Class Rules; this Notice of Race and the Sailing Instructions issued by each club, except in the event that any of these are modified by Sailing Instructions and the appendices to the Sailing Instructions.

SCORING
The Low-Point Scoring System will apply with 15 or more races scheduled. A DNC will be based on the total number of entries in the series. A DNF, DSQ and DNS will be based on the total number of Harken Series starters in each individual regatta.

Throw out races will be incorporated into the series scoring with the following formulas:

If 14-15 races are completed, there will be 1 throw out
If 16-17 races are completed, there will be 2 throw outs
If 18-19 races are completed, there will be 3 throw outs
If 20 or more races are completed, there will be 4 throw outs.

Sail number changes must be reported to the Harken series chairman, Doug Cefali, or Co-Chairs Carrie Dair, and Alfonso Sosa Cordero, and reported to the race committee before the first race each day.

more INFORMATION
For more information regarding the Harken Series contact:

Doug Cefali, Harken Series Chairman.  E-mail:  Cefali@gmail.com
Carrie Dair, So-Cal Series Co-Chair. E-mail: Carrydair@aol.com
Alfonso Sosa Cordero, Nor-Cal Co-Chair. E-mail: corsomarine@sbcglobal.net

For more information contact each host club sailing:

California Yacht Club: Carry Dair (310) 822-1908 carrydair@aol.com
Cabrillo Beach Yacht Club: Mercedes Hunt (310) 519-1694 x 201 mercedes@cbyc.org, mercedes4sail@yahoo.com
San Francisco Yacht Club: Forrest Gay (415) 435-9525 youth@sfyc.org
St. Francis Yacht Club: John Craig (415) 820-3729 junior@stfyc.com
 
 

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