RULES FOR NORTHERN & SOUTHERN PADDLE EVENTS
Revised 7th May 2008
1/ Northern and Southern Paddle events are only those specified in the Association events calendar as published on the Streaker Class Owner’s Association website - www.streaker-class.org.uk.
2/ A designated Paddle Bonus (NPB or SPB) event must be a specific Streaker open meeting, it cannot be a joint Northern & Southern Paddle (NP/SP) event.
3/ All Paddle Bonus events will be included at the discretion of the Secretary of the Streaker Class Owner's Association.
4/ At Paddle Bonus events, “Bonus Results” will only be awarded and counted towards the Paddle series. The “Bonus Result” shall have no bearing on the overall result of any individual open meeting whatsoever.
5/ At events where more than 3 races are held, only the first 3 races sailed will be counted towards the relevant Paddle series.
6/ The Low Point scoring system will be used at all meetings (which uses a boat’s finishing place as her race score) as per RRS Appendix A4.
7/ For the purposes of Paddle scores irrespective of the race scores awarded at a particular meeting, a boat that came to the starting area but did not start, did not ?nish, retired after ?nishing or was disquali?ed shall be scored points for the ?nishing place one more than the number of boats that came to the starting area. A boat that entered the meeting but did not come to the starting area shall be scored points for the ?nishing place one more than the number of boats entered in that Paddle series.
8/ To qualify for a Paddle series, every helm must hold current membership of the Streaker Class Owner’s Association and count a total of nine race results.
9/ If there is a series score tie between two or more boats, each boat’s race scores shall be listed in order of best to worst, and at the ?rst point(s) where there is a difference the tie shall be broken in favour of the boat(s) with the best score(s). No excluded scores shall be used.
If a tie remains between two or more boats, they shall be ranked in order of their scores in the last race. Any remaining ties shall be broken by using the tied boats’ scores in the next-to-last race and so on until all ties are broken. These scores shall be used even if some of them are excluded scores.
10/ The winner of a series will hold the respective Paddle title for one year.
11/ Members may qualify for both the Northern & Southern Paddle series in the same calendar year.