Qualifying Series
- For the qualifying series boats will be assigned to fleets of, as near as possible, equal size and ability.
- Initial assignments will be made by a seeding committee appointed by the organizing authority and will be posted by 2000 on Monday 25th.
- In the qualifying series boats will be reassigned to Blue and Yellow fleets after each day of racing, except if on the first day only one race is completed. If all fleets have completed the same number of races, boats will be reassigned on the basis of their ranks in the series. If all fleets have not completed the same number of races the series scores for reassignment will be calculated for those races, numbered in order of completion, completed by all fleets.
- Reassignments will be made as follows:
Rank in Series / Fleet Assignment
1st Blue
2nd Yellow
3rd Yellow
4th Blue
5th Blue
6th Yellow
7th Yellow
8th Blue
9th Blue
And so on
- Reassignments will be based on the ranking available at 20:00 that day regardless of protests or requests for redress not yet decided.
- If all fleets have not completed the same number of races by the end of a day, the fleets with fewer races will continue racing the following day until all fleets have completed the same number of races. All boats will thereafter race in the new fleets.
- If at the end of the qualifying series some qualifying series fleets have more race scores than others, any extra races will be abandoned so that all boats in the qualifying series have the same number of race scores.
Final Series
- Boats will be assigned to final series Gold and Silver fleets on the basis of their ranks in the qualifying series.
- The final series fleets will be, as nearly as possible, of equal size but so that the Silver fleet is not larger than the Gold fleet. Boats with the best qualifying series ranks will race all final series races in the Gold fleet; boats with the next best qualifying series ranks will race in the Silver fleet.
- Any recalculation of qualifying series ranking after boats have been assigned to final series fleets will not affect the assignments except that a redress decision may promote a boat to a higher fleet. Different final series fleets need not have completed the same number of final races. The boats in the Gold fleet will be ranked highest, except for a boat disqualified from a final series race under rules 5 or 69.
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