GP Events

There are eleven events in the series, over six weekends or long weekends:

•  Easter series 3rd, 4th and 5th April - Completed
•  Osea Cup 6th April - Completed
•  Britannia series 2nd and 3rd May - Completed
•  Blackwater Cup - Completed
•  Jubilee series and Foster Bowl 13th and 14th June (and 18th June for Foster Bowl race three)
•  Regatta 4th July
•  Round the islands 5th July
•  Coronation Cup 18th July
•  Downriver cup 19th July
•  Dyer Cup 10th October
•  Grand Prix Final 11th October

GP Scoring

•  Unlike normal sailing regattas, the highest number of points will win. There is no discard
•  Points are awarded as follows: Winner of event: 50 points, 2nd 49 points, 3rd 48 points, 4th 47 points, …. 50th 1 point. If more than 50 boats participate in a given fleet then all the remaining boats that finish also get 1 point. A sailor who does not score a finish in any races in a given series, or does not finish the race in a single race event, will not be awarded any points.
•  The final event of the year (the Grand Prix Final) will be a double point race, so points will be Winner: 100 points, 2nd 98 points, 3rd 96 points … 50th 2 points. If more than 50 boats participate then all the remaining boats that finish also get 2 points.
•  If an event is a series of multiple races then points are awarded to the winner of the series – points are not awarded for each race. Individual events of multiple races will be scored as normal as per the club SI and the RRS.
•  Points are awarded separately to the helm, and to any crew. If an event is a series of multiple races, and the helm or crew change during the event, then the points will be awarded to the helm and to the crew that compete in the majority of races during the event, including any discards.
•  Points are awarded within each fleet, so the helm and crew of the Sprite fleet would get 50 points each, the winning helm of the Laser fleet would get 50 points and so on.
•  The makeup of a ‘fleet’ will depend on the event. A fleet is defined a group of boats at an event that do the same course and have the same start time for every race. For example, there might be a separate ILCA fleet in an event or they could be part of the medium handicap. For ‘all in’ races eg the Dyer Cup, there will usually only be one or two fleets (main and short course).
•  Non finishers scoring OCS, RTD, DNF, DNS will get zero points
•  A DSQ will get -5 points and -10 in the Grand Prix final.
•  As allowed by the club sailing instructions allow, you can get average points if you are doing a duty at any point during a GP event, and request the Sailing Secretary to award them. This is only possible for one GP event during the year. The average will be taken across the ten GP events excluding the event in question, even if you did not compete in them. The average points will replace any points you score if you do part of a GP event with multiple races. If the event in question is the GP final, then you will receive double the average points scored across other events. If the event is not a GP final, then for the purposes of calculating the average score any points scored in the GP final will be halved. All average points requests must be made by email to the Sailing Secretary by the 1st October 2026. You will need to nominate a class for these average points (see class prizes below).

There will be two series, the overall series, and the class series

•  In the overall series points will count irrespective of what class was sailed.
•  In the class series points will count only if a given class was sailed (note: because many people sail different classes, we can’t just look for the highest placed Mirror sailor in the main series to award the Mirror prize). Note that these points will be awarded irrespective of the fleet that the class of boat sailed in.
• In both series the helm and crew will score points.

Protests at any individual event will be dealt with by the Race officer at that event. Any protest regarding the rules, scoring or awarding of prizes in the GP series itself will be heard by a panel which will be nominated by the Hon. Sailing Secretary. The panel should exclude any person whose own results in the GP series would be materially affected by the results of the protest.

GP Classes:

•  Optimist
•  Mirror
•  Topper or Tera
•  RS Feva
•  ILCA (any rig size)
•  Solo
•  Wayfarer
•  Fireball
•  Sprite
•  Any medium handicap boat not included in above list
•  Any fast handicap boat not included in above list

GP Prizes (provisional)

• Main series: 10th to 1st place
• Main series: 3rd to 1st female
• Main series: 3rd to 1st cadet
• Class series: 1st place and 2nd place in each class. This is so that double handers could potentially see a helm and a crew who normally sail together at the top of the series.

Robert Carver, Hon. Sailing Secretary