Announcing the HP30 Class limits
by HP30 Class 26 Dec 2017 14:01 GMT
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With the class limits now set by RORC Rating and ratified by the HP30 Class working group, entries to the Class are building really nicely, with more new teams now joining the programme, including Manu Guedon from France and Richard Woof from Weymouth, UK.
Richard's team is the latest entry to the 2018 HP30 Class, racing a J90 called Jo90. "We are really excited about joining this growing class," comments Richard, "especially, with Class starts at Poole Regatta, Round the Island Race and Lendy Cowes Week; we are pretty much guaranteed some brilliant racing and I am sure the class will have a great future."
Class numbers have grown substantially in the last five weeks, since RORC Rating agreed to support the class; generously helping to re-establish the class limits.
In recent weeks the fleet size has increased from a committed five boats, to eight solid entries for the whole season. With six more coming from overseas to participate in the bigger events of the series, including, the Round the Island Race and Lendy Cowes Week, the fleet size is expected to be in the mid-teens, by summer.
2018 Events Schedule
The class has now been offered class starts for the International Paints Poole Regatta 2018, Round the Island Race and Lendy Cowes Week, where the boats will enjoy a four day mini-series regatta at the beginning of the week as well as the more traditional courses for the balance of the competition.
In addition to these events, the HP30 Class is continuing to discuss Class starts and extracted results at the other events listed.
Points Series Competition Format
The consensus is that the Points Series competition must be easy to enter, with teams having to participate in no fewer than five events to qualify. The final score for the season will be determined from each team's best four scores from the events listed below.
Points Series Weighting Factor
To recognise the added difficulty of achieving low scores, in events with larger fleets, the HP30 Class will apply a weighting, which is a similar system used by other events to determine overall Fleet Winners.
A boat's series score will therefore become the total of her five race scores (excluding the worst score) and multiplied by the Class Weighting Factor.
The weighting factor will be advised in advance of the season, once entries for the points series championship have been published.
London Boat Show 10th : 14th January
The HP30 Class will be represented at London Boat Show, on the boardwalk at the heart of the show. HP30 Class Manager Joe Hall will be on stand LD090B ready to answer any questions and talk through the various options available to owners and teams wanting to get involved.
The Class has a number of exciting brokerage boats available through the HP30 brokerage site, including Farr30s, FarEast28s and last year's mixed sportsboat winner at Cowes Week, Adriatica.
Finally, best wishes for Christmas and a year of fast sailing in 2018.