The Rules
The aim of the 3 Creeks Race is for this to be a team sailing and running event, with maximum participation by all members of the team in both aspects!
However, provided you stick to these few rules, it's your race to run however you wish!
Please note there is also a runners' Kit List, included in the event instructions.
General Rules:
Sailing Rules
Disclaimer
## Entrants should know that this is a self-martialled event. It is aimed at competent sailors and runners. It will be clear from the outset that participants shall be required to navigate the running routes unaided, and the yacht skipper will be responsible for sailing their yachts safely and competently around the course at all times. ##
However, provided you stick to these few rules, it's your race to run however you wish!
Please note there is also a runners' Kit List, included in the event instructions.
General Rules:
- Teams can be up to a maximum of 5 and a minimum of 4.
- At least one competent sailor must be on your boat at all times during the race.
- Teams must communicate with the race officer in accordance with the communication instructions (to be confirmed at the briefing).
- Youth team members (14 – 18) are welcome subject to a completed parental consent form.
- Tenders must be used for the initial row across the Dart (not canoes or paddle boards).
Sailing Rules
- The Race Committee consists of the Yealm Yacht Club (YYC) Sailing Committee and The Race Officer.
- The race will be governed by the rules as defined in the Racing Rules of Sailing 2013-16(RRS) and these Event Instructions.
- All boats shall ensure that a valid CG 66 is lodged with the Coastguard. (Form valid for 3 years).
- Entrants should familiarize themselves with all hazards (particularly rocks and obstructions) associated with the race area.
- Entrants must maintain a lookout for vessels engaged in diving and their accompanying divers and give them a wide berth.
- Yachts should conform with the requirements of the ISAF Offshore regulations for a category 4 event
- At least one mobile phone must be on at all times on each yacht, so the race officer can contact the team in an emergency, as a back up to the yacht VHF.
- Yachts shall not be permitted to sail within the River Dart, the Salcombe Estuary or the River Yealm.
- In the absence of any wind, human power of any kind is permitted to propel the vessel (rowing for example)
Disclaimer
- A boat is entirely responsible for her own safety, whether afloat or ashore, and nothing, whether in the Notice of Race or Sailing Instructions or anywhere else, reduces this responsibility.
- It is for a boat to decide whether she is fit to sail in the conditions in which she will find herself. By going to sea, the boat confirms that she is fit for those conditions and her crew is competent to sail and compete in them.
- Nothing done by the organizers can reduce the responsibility of the boat nor will it make the organizers responsible for any loss, damage, death or personal injury, however it may have occurred, as a result of the boat taking part in the race. The organizers encompass everyone helping to run the race and the event, and include the organizing authority, the race committee, race officers, and other assistants.
- Each boat is responsible to ensure that she is seaworthy so as to be able to face extremes of weather; and that the safety equipment is properly maintained, stowed and in date and that the crew knows how to use it.
- Each participating boat is required to hold adequate insurance and in particular to hold insurance against third-party claims in the sum of at least £3,000,000.
- Teams must note down the numbers displayed at each checkpoint for handing in at the end of the event (locations of each checkpoint to be confirmed at the event briefing)
- Each run must be undertaken with at least two members.
- Running pairs must stay together at all times.
- All items of the running kit list must be carried at all times on all runs (head torch Salcombe run only).
- Runners should ensure their head torch is suitably powerful and that they have spare batteries.
- Footwear should have a suitably grippy sole, as the public footpaths tend to be muddy and slippy.
- Runners must get to the shore in yacht tenders, under their own steam, not under engine (unless briefed otherwise at the race briefing).
- If running pairs choose to leave their tender ashore whilst they complete a running leg, they shall ensure it is stowed appropriately above the high tide mark.
## Entrants should know that this is a self-martialled event. It is aimed at competent sailors and runners. It will be clear from the outset that participants shall be required to navigate the running routes unaided, and the yacht skipper will be responsible for sailing their yachts safely and competently around the course at all times. ##