RULES FOR NORTHERN PADDLE, SOUTHERN PADDLE AND CLUSTER EVENTS
Revised 6 January 2010

1)To qualify for a Paddle series, every helm must hold current membership of the Streaker Class Owners Association and count a total of fourteen (14) race results.

2)To qualify for a Cluster series, every helm must hold current membership of the Streaker Class Owners Association and count a total of five (5) race results.

3)Northern and Southern Paddle events are only those specified in the Association events calendar as published on the Streaker Class Owners Association website, www.streaker-class.org.uk.

4)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.

5)All Paddle Bonus events will be included at the discretion of the Secretary of the Streaker Class Owners Association.

6)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.

7)For an open meeting to count as a paddle event, a minimum of three boats must qualify as starters in each of three planned races, although more or fewer than three races may actually be sailed on the day.

8)At events where more than three races are held, only the first three races sailed will be counted towards the relevant Paddle series.

9)The Low Point scoring system (which uses a boat’s finishing place as her race score) will be used at all meetings, as per RRS Appendix A4.

10)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 finish or retired after finishing shall be scored points for the finishing place one more than the number of boats that came to the starting area; a boat that came to the starting area but was disqualified shall be scored two 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 finishing place equal to the maximum number of boats coming to the starting area in any race at that meeting.

11)A helm who qualifies for a Paddle series and who finishes in the top five places of that Paddle series is not eligible to win any award in a Cluster series in the same geographical area.

12)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 first 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 series tie remains, each boat’s discarded scores from all races sailed shall be listed in order of best to worst, and at the first point where there is a difference the tie shall be broken in favour of the boat with the best score.

13)The winner of a series will hold the respective Paddle or Cluster title for one year.

14)Members may qualify for both the Northern & Southern Paddle series in the same calendar year.