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All competitors wishing to enter any of the races listed must have returned a signed entry/declaration form and paid the appropriate entry fee before the start of the event.

The committee reserves the right to change or cancel any event or venue.

The Club Friday Evening Points Races is a series of ten races, held fortnightly, starting in early May.
All races are sailed under the current 'Racing Rules of Sailing', 'RYA Prescriptions', 'Class Rules', and the 'Mylor Yacht Club Sailing Instructions'.
The courses are normally set out in the Carrick Roads, to the North of the North Bank Buoy, and the start point is between the Committee Boat (anchored off Penarrow Point) and a specified Distance Mark. The courses are decided on the day, and use the turning points illustrated in the chart. These comprise both official charted navigation buoys and dedicated yellow pipe buoys permanently installed, or other coloured buoys which are usually placed on the day.

MYC's new safety boat

NOTICE OF RACE

SAILING INSTRUCTIONS

COURSES

CLASSES

These are the classes which we currently race:
(with start time)

Class U	PYS yachts Division 1 (1845)	"The Fast Set" with boats from Mylor, Flushing and Falmouth. These guys and girls do tend to get a bit serious about their racing. Some have even been known to lodge protests.
Class G	Gaffers (1850)	This class is always contested by a wide range of types and sizes of craft.
Class H	Shrimpers (1850)	Hotly contested one design racing usually with a good sized fleet of one of the most popular boats to be designed and built in Cornwall.
Class Q	PYS yachts Division 2 (1855)	The class that gives Mylor racing its distinctive attraction. Most of the boats in this class were never really built with racing in mind and have handicaps that look like telephone numbers. But they jostle around the course having just as much fun and being just as competitive as the rest.
Class O	Dragons (1900)	"The Elite Fleet", now popular enough to race as a seperate class.
Class B	Large working boats (1905)	"The Queens of Carrick Roads" with big sail areas and big crews racing over the oyster beds that they dredge under rather less sail usually with just two crew in the winter.
Class C	Small working boats (1905)	A popular class most of whom also work the oyster beds in the winter. They have the lines of the bigger boats and are just as competitive.
* A suitable class is allocated by the Committee.

FLAGS

Race start flag sequence:
Class flags are raised at the ten-minute gun and lowered at the start.

Pre-Start	Committee Boat on station. Course group number displayed.
1835			Class U
1840		Prepare		Class G & Class H
1845					Class Q
1850			Class O
1855				Class B & Class C
1900
1905

		Finishing
Finish