At the beginning of each year, the Committee jointly prepares the Club's NOR and SIs, reviews and approves applications for all regattas including the NOR and SIs that will control these events and develops the master list of race management responsibilities of our members. Much of this work has been started, if not completed, for 2012.
Once this material finalized, it is the responsibilities of each individual fleet representative to prepare drafts of the documents that will govern the racing programs that each fleet will manage in behalf of the BOG, our "Organizing Authority". For the Cruising Class these drafts will include seven separate NOR and SI&As for the Summer Sunday Series, Aunt Kate and Uncle Dan Series, Wednesday Night Series, the One Design Regatta, Flournoy Cup, Eaton's Neck and Middle Ground Race and finally, the 2012 Qualification Requirements and Scoring Policy. The objective here is to insure that the drafts compile with the RRS and the CPYC NOR and SIs that you and the R&R committee have already executed.
These drafts should then be circulated to the appropriate C.C. fleet members; Fleet Captain, Scorers (Halsey & Sharon) all known PROs and event Chairs and Rich our Ratings Chair. Following their review and approval, all these draft documents are then submitted to the full R&R Committee for review. You'll find that this is a rather arduous process as all eight of the Club's fleets will be submitting comparable sets of documents. This is a large stack of paper for the Committee to nit pick through.
With agreement of the R&R, all material is forwarded to the BOG for final approval and they can then be posted for our members.
Quoted from Paul Iffland who recently stepped down after many years of arduous work for the Cruising class. Thank you Paul!!
Even after hearing this I still volunteered to take on this task. If you would like to send your thoughts regarding our racing I will forward them on the the committee and if you would like to buy Paul a beer for all his hard work I hear he likes the green stuff!
Bill Walker- CC Fleet Rep to R&R