BODRUM CUP 2010
22. INTERNATIONAL WOODEN YACHT REGATTA

NEW REGULATIONS:

• The Bodrum Cup week is widened as “Bodrum Yacht Festival” and aimed at sectoral publicity at highest level.
• With support of Bodrum Municipality, Chamber of Commerce and other institutions, The Bodrum Iskele Square and T Pier will be arranged so as to create opportunity for exhibition of participating yachts in water and related products on land at dates 16-19 October before the Bodrum Cup.
• The Bodrum Cup will be organized in 4+1 courses.
• Starts will be given in 2 separate stages.
• The Bodrum Cup will be arranged in 4 courses, Bodrum Challenge Trophy in 1 course 3 races.
• The Bodrum Cup participating classes: Traditional, Performance Cruiser Wooden Yachts and Guest (non-wooden) yachts.
• Categories will be determined by "water level" of yachts.
• Traditional Wooden Yachts:

Bodrum Cup Mega: Yachts with water level 21 meters and over
Bodrum Cup Traditional : Yachts with water level 20,99 m and below
Bodrum Cup Tirhandil : All tirhandil yachts will be considered in this category.

• Handicap system will be applied, 2010 will be the transition year to this system.
• A measuring committee is established to measure and certify the yachts.
• For the year 2010, the data given by yacht's skipper/owner will be accepted, the measuring committee will verify as many data as possible.
• Until the Bodrum Cup 2011, the committee will finish measuring and certifying the yachts.
• After 4 courses, in addition to course prizes 4 Bodrum Cup's and The Regatta Penant will be awarded. Bodrum Cup Mega, Bodrum Cup Traditional, Bodrum Cup Tirhandil, Bodrum Cup Performance Cruiser.
• On Sunday, aiming at promotion of gulets, a duel of Bodrum Challenge Trophy will be practiced for the first time. There will be 3 races in a short course of 1 NM.
• At the end of 4 courses, first and second yachts in Bodrum Cup Mega, Bodrum Cup Traditional, Bodrum Cup Tirhandil, Bodrum Cup Performance Cruiser categories may attend the Trophy, if one cannot participate for any reason, the next yacht in its rank will have the right.
• Handicap system will be applied in the Trophy as well.
• Trophy prizes will be awarded at the end of that day.

24 October 2010
Bodrum Challenge Trophy
Winners’ Shootout

Special Rules:

1. This is a race, aimed at as promoting the publicity of gulets, subject to special rules.
2. It is aimed at choosing the most successful amongst the first and second yachts in Mega, Traditional, Tirhandil and Performance Cruiser categories of The Bodrum Cup.
3. In case any of the first or second yachts cannot attend the Trophy, the next yacht in the rank will have the right to attend.
4. 3 races have been planned for each category.
5. The points of yachts prior to this race will be ignored, they will start without any points.
6. The length of the course is approximately 1 NM.
7. In case of less than 3 races is made:
  A. In case 2 races were made, and if there is a tie, durations of races will be considered and the tie will be broken in favour of the yacht with shorter duration.
  B. In case only 1 race was made, the results of this race will be considered.
8. The results will be figured according to KLR values and durations of yachts at the races.
9. No start will be given after 18:00 pm, the prizes will be awarded the same day.
10. The start system will be as follows:
  • A warning signal will be displayed 6 minutes prior to the race.
  • A get prepared signal will be displayed 3 minutes prior to the race and ships will not be able to use their engines any further.
  • The get prepared signal will be lowered 1 minute prior to the race. At this time, ships will be at the location provided for them on the start line.
  • Start signal will be given by lowering the warning signal.
  • All applications stated above will be accompanied by a sound signal.
11. Start line will be divided by a buoy in the middle. The side yachts will use will be determined by a draw before the first race. The yacht that starts in starboard side (between buoy in the middle and start boat) to the first race will start in port side (between buoy in the middle and start buoy) to the second race. Another draw will determine the sides for the third race. This line will be accepted as the start line for the yachts.
12. The yachts will be racing right after the start sign is given.
13. The start sequence of each race will be as follows:
      1. Performance Cruiser
      2. Mega
      3. Traditional
      4. Tirhandil Yachts
14. The line between K1 and K2 buoys on the course will be the gate. The yachts will pass between these buoys coming from any direction.
15. R1 and R2 buoys will be windward side gate. The yachts will come from K1-K2 gate direction and pass in between R1 and R2, and turn leaving either of them on port or starboard side.
16. Finish will be taken coming from the direction of last buoy (R1/R2), among the finish boat with blue flag and the buoy on starboard side of the finish boat.
17. According to this, the course will be: Start - Gate (K1/K2) - Gate (R1/R2) - Finish.
18. The jury boat will follow the race and punish the boat that is considered as breaking the rules, or evaluate the protests immediately and declare the decision. With that purpose they will use two flags of green and red color, will hoist a sound signal wawing these flags, and announce the boat's sail number/registration number. Green flag will remark that no rule is broken and red flag will denote that the boat is punished. The boat that is punished will perform a 360C turn without fouling the other boat.
19. Three red flags in a race will result in disqualification.
20. In these races, decision of referees will be definite, no amendments can be requested. Protests will be given against the opponent immediately and the decision will be taken immediately by the jury.

 2010 Bodrum Cup HandiCap:

2010 Bodrum Cup Handicap System:

We proudly observe the increase in the number of high performance yachts, built and lauched in the past 20 years as a result of the fast and positive improvements in yacht building sector.

As the Organization Committee, we believe that the application of a handicap system is inevitable in order to provide a fair racing environment and not to stay behind the improvements. It is clear that no perfect handicap system has been invented yet. According to the extensive research we have made, we have decided that most suitable system is the KLR formula, which is also used abroad in similar regattas to ours, and to use it in the regatta this year. As the data is not available in official documents, we are aware that the transition process will not be easy at all. In this process, our greatest assurance will be you, the sailors who has supported the improvements so far.

It has been targeted to find out the real values for the necessary data, weigh and certify each yacht by the end of 2011. A measurement committee has been established for this purpose.This year, the values provided by the owner / skipper of each yacht will be taken as base and controlled by the measurement committe to the maximum extent.

The KLR score, determined for each yacht will be multiplied by the time spent in the regatta and the scores will be evaluated acoording to the corrected time values. The KLR score for each yacht will be announced before the regatta and will also be accessible at the Bodrum Cup web page. The values found out by the measurement committee during the regatta will be updated instantly. It has been targeted that the reported values of the leading yachts will be controlled until the end of the fourth course.

The KLR – Formula

KLR Results

(Developed 1994 by Enno Thyen, Freundeskreis Klassische Yachten, Germany)

The KLR – Formula

(Developed 1994 by Enno Thyen, Freundeskreis Klassische Yachten, Germany)

KLR = Klassiker-Rennwert

L = LOA [m]
LWL = LWL [m]
B = beam [m]
T = draft [m] (including centerboard)
V = displacement [t]

All these measurements should be taken from the design if available. In the case of serious alterations the actual measurements should be taken.

S = Sailarea (effective)

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Note: Generally the Sailarea is the average of the area which is carried upwind in moderate winds (above force 4) and the area in light winds, mostly using a genoa.
For example: a cutter-yawl :
S = 125 m2 (for all sails the effective area is used)

cb = factor underwater and keel-configuration
(centerboard 0.97; usual long-keel 1.00; separated rudder 1.03)

r = rigg-factor
(gaff 0.95; wishbone 0.97; ketsch 0.98; bermudian sloop, cutter, yawl 1.00; modified and not original high-tech-riggs up to 1.05 on the decision of the race-committee)

s = spinnaker-factor
(not using a spinnaker will normally give a bonus of 3% depending on the kind of the course, in this case s = 0.97)

It is understood, that the calculation generally bases on the expection, that the yacht carries sails, which complie to the rigg-measurements P, E, J, IG (see IMS-rules). Spinnakers should be „original“ in size. This means that carrying a monster-spinnaker compared to the „rule-spinnaker“ should be penelized by adding 1 or 2% extra (s = 1.01, 1.02) depending on the amount of the extra-width. As a responce to the dicision carrying a spinnaker or not it is suggested to give a bonus to the yacht without spinnaker of 3 % (see above). The dicision has to be made on the entry-form at least 72 h before the regatta.

The rule was used for 6 years in all Baltic-races organised by the Freundeskreis Klassische Yachten in Germany (Laboe 200 entries, Flensburg 160, Kiel 100) . It is also used in Norway (Europe Week 2000) – with good experiences as I know so far. The KTK did further developement on the rule in way of factors and exact determinations about how to measure the sail areas.
The results, calculated by time on time (), are very reasonable. It was shown, that very different yachts can be compared. The rule is very well accepted by the competitors.

Meanwhile the formula is used in the field of Yardstick, a yery popular German handicap-system. Yardstick is an empiric system, so you have the problem to give a rating for a new and unknown yacht (the same problem we had and have on our classic regattas whenever an unknown yacht appears). Our local yardstick-committee (I´m one of the 4 members) usually gives a certificate for these new boats and the KLR-formula is an accepted help to get the „starting figure“ beside a comparison to other similar yachts. The formula has shown being able to hit existing and proven yardstick-figures of many of the GRP-yachts on the point.

Space for further developement is given by the settings of various factors and I would like to introduce a propeller-factor „p“ with 1.00 using a usual 2- or 3-bladed fixed propeller and 1.01 without any propeller (racing-classes). In principle the formula gives a very acceptable idea of the yacht´s performance, regardless to the state of originallity, maintanance and condition. Only very few datas are needed – the formula is quick, simple and the owners are satisfied. The formula doesn´t give any motivation for tuning up classics with carbon masts and kevlar-sails, because we would penalize such features by setting reasonable factors (i.e. rigg-factor r), which in principle should refer at least to the yacht´s actual performanance. But in this way it´s no problem to let them sail all.

For the future we want to avoid a complicated practice using a rating-system for we have very good experiances with our „simple system“. Every additional yacht´s data or dimension and every additional factor will cause more work, more control and it isn´t for sure, that you´ll obtain better results. We don´t want to have measurements at all because our Baltic-fleet consists of more than 300 yachts.

We don´t want to mix the yacht´s observable sailing performance and the state of originallity as fas as it doesn´t influence the performance. We think there are more efficient strategies to reach the aim of preserving vintage and classic yachts.

In some cases we adjusted ratings after an evaluation of several racing results, because it was shown, that some yachts could´t reach their ratings or they were really faster than calculated. Without any doubt you can have two designs with exactly the same datas used in the formula which may perform quite different. The slower boat isn´t neccessarely a bad boat because it may have other advantages than being a good racer.
The biggest number of our yachts race with their calculated rating and we have very few trouble.
Each organizer of a classics regatta-event will decide whether a yacht is „classic enough“ to take part in the races, the racing committee is responsible for the starting-groups and occasionally for the settings of the factors of the KLR-formula. Mostly the KLR-figures can be taken from the existing list for more than 300 yachts. We will establish an FKY racing committee, whose tasks will be: Maintaining and publishing the KLR-List and the FKY Racing Rules and setting the rating adjustments.

Summary:

Using the KLR-formula separates racing from the judgement over items like authenticity, originallity, state of maintanance, degree of original substance and so on. For these (also very important) items we have for example a restoration prize.
Using KLR is very simple, we don´t have measurement-certificates and we don´t want them.
KLR doesn´t need complicated measurements, in some cases we have to ask and to explain to get the „right“ datas (some owners will give the measured sail-area which is less, others are not shure about the yachts displacement).
After 6 years in use without changings we notice a high degree of acceptance.
The KLR-formula has no type-producing character like the well known rules RORC, CCA, IOR, mR ever had. That means that no type will get notable advantages or disadvantages. It is a formula to get ratings for an existing crowd of very different yachts, spread over the various categories of types and spread over about a hundred years..

KLR Results