Standing Rule

Purpose

To encourage travel and high caliber competition for youth racing in Southern California at the major bays for the Club 420 double-handed dinghy.

Sponsor and Rules

SCYYRA is the title sponsor of the series.
Individual clubs will host each regatta. Sailing instructions, protest decisions, and official results of each host club shall be used as a basis to score.
US Sailing and specific class rules (including membership requirements) shall apply to all races unless otherwise noted in particular race instructions.
All participating Juniors must be a SCYYRA or SCYA club member..
A skipper or crew cannot count a regatta in the series scoring or enter a new series if he or she is 19 years of age or older or has attended college prior to entering the series or participating in a particular Regatta.
A participant must enter each separate regatta in the series with the individual host club.
To enter the Series, participants must complete the Series entry form at www.scyyra.org
A participant may enter the series at the first or second scheduled regatta, but no later than the start of the first race of the second regatta.
An entry fee of $30.00 per sailor shall be charged for the series and collected before the team shall be scored.

The Series

The series will consist of up to four (4) scheduled regattas when possible during the school year (Sept.-June).

Trophies

The Perry Perpetual trophy is a cup on a wooden base, and was awarded to Dave Perry when he crewed for Harry Walker and won the 1983 Star Class, Southern Hemisphere Championship.
The Perry Perpetual trophy shall be awarded at the end of the last event of the series to the team who has the lowest cumulative point score for the scheduled regattas using the scoring system explained below.
Take home trophies shall be awarded to the top finisher(s) in the series.
The Perpetual trophy shall be kept at the United States Sailing Center Long Beach (USSCLB) or at a place determined by the SCYYRA Board of Directors. The names of the winning skipper and crew shall be engraved on the trophy.
In the case that the crew and helmsman of the winning team have sailed together in all the races in the series, the Perry Perpetual trophy itself shall be awarded to the crewmember of the winning team in the recognition of the importance of the crew to a winning team.
Otherwise, the perpetual trophy shall be awarded to the helmsman. A suitable ‘take home” trophy, preferably a gift with sailing use, shall be awarded to both winning sailors.

Scoring

Perry Series scoring shall be based on the official results of each race tabulated only against other Perry Series entrants.
Perry Series scoring shall be in accordance with US Sailing Appendix A9.
For the Perry Series a DNC is defined as not registering for a Perry Regatta and shall be scored the number of entries in the Perry Series plus one.
Ties will be broken using US SAILING Appendix A. If a tie still exists, the winner shall be the yacht ahead in the final race that the two participating yachts both started.
Throwout races will be incorporated into the series scoring with the following formulas: