The Medway Yacht Club is hosting the 2025 Spring Series, a five-race series Sundays 13, 27 April & 4, 11, 18 of May with a prize-giving after the last race. The Class 1 warning signal will be at 09:55 for the start on the Upnor Line in front of the Medway Yacht Club.
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Eligibility, Handicaps & Classes
The racing is open to cruisers of MYC members and non-members as bona fide guests of the club. Entrants will be able to opt to enter using any combination of RYA Yacht Time Correction (YTC) handicaps, IRC handicaps and Club Handicaps (CH). CH are allocated by the Club and adjusted based on results that are clear evidence of the speed the cruisers are sailed over water. There is a mechanism for adding cruisers without a track record. Here are the current Club Handicaps. They are indicative of the handicaps that will be used to place cruisers in classes for the series. Courses will be carefully chosen to ensure, as far as possible, that no advantage or disadvantage is given to cruisers across the range of handicaps within classes because of the tidal streams.
Entry Form for Spring Series
To enter the Spring Series please complete an entry form. Entry in this Series is free of charge but please get your entry in as soon as possible preferably before 31 March 2025. Supporting certificates can be sent later. The entry form is provided in MS Word so competitors can complete it electronically if they want. 2025 Spring Series Entry Form in MS Word It is also provided as a pdf so competitors can print it out, complete it and scan it to make an electronic document. 2025 Spring Series Entry Form as a pdf Click on either link and then look at your browser downloads for the entry form. Please send the completed entry form as soon as possible, preferably as an attachment to an email with ‘Spring Series 2025’ as the subject to the MYC Office office@medwayyachtclub.com.
For your results to be calculated using YTC and IRC handicaps, you will need to obtain 2025 certificates Click here to Obtain a YTC Handicap Click here to obtain an IRC Handicap Please send these certificates, when obtained, to the office preferably as an attachment to a email with ‘Spring Series 2025’ as the subject to office@medwayyachtclub.com.
The club house, mooring, parking and cleaning facilities etc. will be available, where possible, to entries from other clubs. Please ask the office for more details and to book what you need. – office@medwayyachtclub.com.
Communication
The main communication for the Spring Series will be via the Spring Series WhatsApp Group. You will be added to this WhatsApp group once an entry has been received. Competitors can nominate additional phone numbers to be included in the WhatsApp group on the entry form. You can also be included in the WhatsApp group by emailing the Class Captain with your name and mobile number Cruiser Racing Class Captain. This WhatsApp Group should only be used for items related to the Spring Series.
Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions
– click here to download the 2025 Notice of Race
– click here to download the 2025 Sailing Instructions
– click here to download the 2025 Minimum Equipment List
Should competitors have any questions or queries after submitting their entry form and having read the NOR please contact the office – office@medwayyachtclub.com.
Some questions emerged during Race 1 as to exactly how to finish at buoy 16 in line with the sailing instructions after the previous mark of the course was Stangate Spit. This drawing is intended to make the sailing instructions clearer. It means that it is possible to stay out of the tide and finish the race provided that imaginary line A is crossed but you will have to sail considerably further.
For those of you who think in bearings, the bearing from Sharp Ness to buoy 16 is 226 degrees (imaginary line B). Imaginary line A is at 90 degrees so you will finish with buoy 16 to starboard when the centre of the buoy is on a bearing from your bows of 316 degrees (226+90). If you are leaving the buoy to port you finish when the bearing from your bows to the buoy is 136 degrees (226-90). This is a chance for someone to use a hand bearing compass to identify when the buoy is on the right bearing from your bows.
Classes & Handicaps
Here is the allocation of cruisers to classes using the Club Handicaps. The IRC, YTC & CH handicaps are shown. Some of the IRC & YTC handicaps are outstanding and have still to be advised. The CH may be revised following each race. The new Club Handicaps for Race 5 are shown and explained in the Report for Race 4 below.
| Spring Series Classes | |||||||
| Class | Sail | Name | IRC | YTC | CH | ||
| 1 | 962 | Mercury | 1161 | 772 | 741 | ||
| 1 | 3484 | Chips | 907 | 959 | 868 | ||
| 1 | 9401 | Aquila | 904 | 873 | |||
| 1 | 4228 | Reefer X | 954 | 900 | 870 | ||
| 1 | 4502 | Countdown | 906 | 935 | 891 | ||
| 1 | 9746 | Zephyros | 919 | 923 | 902 | ||
| 1 | 3724 | Equinox | 908 | 935 | 906 | ||
| 1 | 9293 | Why Not? | 953 | 907 | 918 | ||
| 1 | 7317 | X-Ray | o/s | 903 | 933 | ||
| 1 | 1524 | Toucan | 985 | 902 | 976 | ||
| 2 | 3174 | Hotspur | 1037 | 1003 | |||
| 2 | 5464 | Drumgold | 881 | 1001 | |||
| 2 | 6068 | The Wizard | 940 | 1009 | |||
| 2 | 5303 | Gothik | o/s | 970 | |||
| 2 | 2129 | Short Wave | 1068 | 1101 | |||
| 2 | 1 | Ruby Tuesday | 958 | 1060 | |||
| 2 | 4397 | Freya | WS | 924 | 1069 | ||
| 2 | 6500 | Petite Fleur | 1073 | 1080 | |||
| 2 | 6123 | Omega | WS | 1250 | |||
| 2 | 274 | Charu | WS | 1148 | 1170 | ||
The provisional results for each race are calculated as soon as possible after the last boat finishes and initially displayed on the TV in MYC club house where further discussion on the race takes place. The food at the barbeque celebrating race 5 will start at 14:45. Subsequently the results will be displayed on the Spring Series WhatsApp and as a click from this web page.
Series Race Reports, Results and effect on Club Handicaps
Latest Results of Spring Series on Sailwave
Report on Race 1 of the 2025 Cruiser Spring Series
Report on Race 2 of the 2025 Cruiser Spring Series
Report on Race 3 of the 2025 Cruiser Spring Series
Report on Race 4 of the 2025 Cruiser Spring Series
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