2. ENTRIES The regatta is open to all classes eligible to compete in the MRA Season Championship.

3. NOTICES TO COMPETITORS Notices to competitors will be posted on the official notice board at the Eastern Yacht Club, located opposite the Front Desk.

4. CHANGES TO THE SAILING INSTRUCTIONS Any changes to the sailing instructions will be posted before 0900 on the day it will take effect, except that any change to the schedule of races will be posted by 1900 hours on the day before it will take effect.

5. SIGNALS MADE ASHORE Signals made ashore will be displayed from the flagpole located at the Eastern Yacht Club Casey Flag Terrace. If a postponement is signaled ashore, the warning signal will be made not less than 60 minutes after AP is lowered.

6. SCHEDULE and CLASS FLAGS The first warning signal each day will be at 1200 hours. Subsequent races each day will be held as soon as possible after the end of the previous race. Class flags will be the class insignia.

7. RACING AREA The racing area will be approximately 1 NM offshore of Marblehead Rock.

8. CHECK-IN Boats shall check in before their first start of each day. Boats in the racing area that are not starting a second or subsequent race shall notify the Race Committee before leaving the racing area. Boats that withdraw from a race, or that decide not to start after coming to the starting area, shall advise the Race Committee as soon as reasonably possible. Boats that fail to check in or withdraw properly may not be scored for that race.

9. COURSES and MARKS

9.1 Courses are shown in Illustration A, with the approximate angles between legs, the order in which marks are to be passed, and the side on which mark is to be left.

9.2 The approximate compass bearing from the leeward mark to Mark 1 and the course pattern will be displayed in the forward rack of the Race Committee signal boat. The approximate distance from the leeward mark to Mark 1 will be displayed in the aft rack of the Race Committee signal boat. These signals will be displayed no later than four (4) minutes before the start (changes RRS 27.1).

9.3 To provide for simultaneous rounding of the leeward mark and starting by separate classes, the starting mark may be set slightly (approximately 100 yards) to leeward of the leeward mark.

9.4 If the race committee sets a gate instead of Mark 3, boats shall sail between Mark 3S and Mark 3P from the direction of the last mark and round either Mark 3S to Starboard or Mark 3P to Port, as shown in Illustration A.

9.5 A green flag flown with the warning signal means "Mark 1 for this class will be a green tetrahedron. This applies to each rounding of Mark 1 by this class.

9.6 Offset Mark: If an offset mark is in place at Mark 1 it shall be passed to port at each rounding of Mark 1.

9.7 Unless Sailing Instruction 9.4 applies, marks will be orange tetrahedrons.

9.8 New marks, as provided in SI 11, Change of Course After the Start, will be designated with a black band.

9.9 The normal starting and finishing marks will be green tetrahedrons.

10. STARTING AND FINISHING LINES

10.1 The starting line will be between a staff from which an orange flag is displayed on the race committee boat and the port end starting mark.

10.2 Boats whose preparatory signal has not been made shall keep clear of the starting area and of all boats whose preparatory signal has been made

10.3 The finishing line will be between a staff on the race committee boat from which a blue flag is displayed and the nearby mark.

11. CHANGE OF COURSE AFTER THE START A change of course after the start will be signaled before the leading boat has begun the leg, although the new mark may not then be in position. Any mark to be rounded after rounding the new mark may be relocated to maintain the original course configuration. When in a subsequent change of course a new mark is replaced, it will be replaced with an original mark (i.e. without a black band).

12. TIME LIMIT The time limit for each race will be two hours for the first boat to finish. Boats finishing more than 15 minutes after the first boat that sails the course finishes will be scored DNF. This changes RRS 35.

13. PROTESTS Protests shall be delivered to the EYC Front Desk within 60 minutes after the race committee finish boat docks. The protest time limit and a list of protests received will be posted on the notice board. Hearings will be held as soon as possible after racing each day in the EYC Model Room. This constitutes the notice required in RRS 63.2.

14. SCORING The Low Point System of Appendix A of the RRS will apply. If at least five races are completed, each boat's worst score will be excluded from her series score. Six races are scheduled. Three races constitute a series.

15. TROPHIES Trophies will be awarded to boats placing first through third in classes averaging ten or more starters, and to the boats placing first in classes averaging between three and ten starters. Trophies will be awarded at the MRA Awards Party. Daily first prizes will be awarded for each race in all classes in which three or more boats start.