FLYING SCOT GULF DISTRICT TRIFECTA 2015

May 23-24, 2015

Southern Yacht Club

New Orleans, Louisiana

Live music and a seafood boil is planned for Saturday evening.

Flying Scot sailors will be sailing for 3 different perpetual trophies as part of the 2015 Juby Wynne Memorial One-Design Regatta.  Each of these trophies has its own specific individual criteria within the Flying Scot fleet, although everyone starts together and sails the same course.  This is explained below.

FSSA Gulf District Championship participants will compete for the Charles L. Dees Memorial Trophy, named in memory of past FSSA officer (and long-time supporter), and Gulf Yachting Association (GYA) and Fairhope Yacht Club Commodore Charlie Dees.  The boat and crew must comply with FSSA sanctioned event rules.  The helmsman must be a qualifying member of FSSA and must be a member of a fleet in the Gulf District.  The top three teams are also presented the standard FSSA champions medallions.

The Cock-of-the-Walk Trophy is presented to the winner of the Gulf Yachting Association Flying Scot Championship.  The trophy was donated by past FSSA President, and GYA and Pensacola Yacht Club Commodore Buddy Pollak.  Entrants (skippers only) must be a member of a GYA Club.  There is no limit to the number of entries per club. The same crew shall sail all series races.  The minimum crew weight must be 390 pounds live weight.  Boats, sails and equipment may be either club owned or privately owned.

And lastly, the Commissioner General Trophy, a crystal sailboat that was donated to SYC by member John G. Weinmann, who served as the United States Commissioner General of the 1984 Worlds Fair held in New Orleans that year, is presented to the overall winner of the Flying Scot Class. The boat and crew must comply with general pertinent FSSA rules, but does not necessarily have to be a member of FSSA, GYA or the Gulf District.

Everyone starts and races together, and is scored together for the total FS fleet. Whoever meets the criteria of the sub-fleets, ie Districts and/or Cock of the Walk, first will be awarded those trophies.  It’s not as confusing as it may sound.

For example, let’s say a boat comes in from Dallas (not a GYA member club or in the Gulf District) and wins the regatta.  I finish 2nd overall and a Pensacola Yacht Club member sailing a PYC Scot finishes third overall.  The Dallas skipper would win the Commissioner General Trophy for winning the regatta overall, but nothing else because they are not a member of the FSSA Gulf District or a GYA club.  I would win the Gulf Districts (assuming I meet all FSSA requirements), but not the Cock-of-the-Walk Trophy because my crew and I do not weigh the required 390 pounds.  And the Pensacola team would win the Cock-of-the-Walk Trophy because they met the GYA criteria for this award.  Clear???!!

--Larry Taggart

   District Governor