PSA: Please order your 2025 PHRF cert now

[fauxboat]

Sending this out via Jibeset shortly:

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Hello SSS Racers!

* Current YRA PHRF certificates are required at SSS races, with very few exceptions. We worked with YRA to get an official timeline, which you may have seen in the last YRA Weekly Roundup: Renewals Received by FRIDAY JANUARY 3rd, 2025 are guaranteed to have a certificate in hand by FRIDAY JANUARY 17th, 2025, which is the week before Fiasco. YRA has opened up registration for 2025 PHRF certificates at https://jibeset.net/YRA000.php?RG=T035469394 --- please order yours ASAP to reduce stress on yourself, YRA, and us.

* If you are buying new sails this winter and you want to make life easier on race committee volunteers, at all your races, there is something you can do. Please ask your sailmaker to ensure your sails have numbers in a strongly contrasting color, of a good size, meeting the rules of Appendix G. For example, dark carbon sails with dark blue or dark red numbers can be very difficult to read, which makes scoring you harder.

* If you are winding down your racing, please consider becoming a race committee volunteer for one or more SF Bay clubs. It is a good way to stay involved, and put your experience to good use by giving back.

Thank you for racing with SSS, and I look forward to seeing many of you at the December 18 meeting.

Richard
2024 SSS Race Chair

 

[Daydreamer]

Submitted my renewal, with no changes, and received it in three days.

 

[Philpott]

Whatever happened to this logic?
https://forum.sfbaysss.org/threads/tbf-phrf.985/

 

[BobJ]

From the "Opening Fiasco Registration" thread:
"The PHRF requirement, and exceptions, for Fiasco will be pretty much the same as last year."

This means you should be able to use your 2024 PHRF certificate for the 2025 3BF.

 

[Philpott]

Not my point, Mr Johnston.

 

[Daydreamer]

I haven't been around racing a very long time.

I recall being able to use the prior year PHRF certificate for the coming year Three Bridge Fiasco.

But not without any Certificate/Rating.

 

[fauxboat]

Good to hear that the current turnaround is fast!

Per the YRA Friday Roundup of December 6:

Skippers who register on Jibeset.net by FRIDAY, JANUARY 3rd are guaranteed to have their 2025 certificate returned to them by FRIDAY JANUARY 17th.

Registrations received after January 3rd, but before Thursday January 23rd, may have their certificate by Friday, January 24th, but the YRA cannot guarantee your certificate will be returned in time for the 3-Bridge Fiasco on January 25th.

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The history of the SSS, and this race, is fascinating. Thank you for the tip to look further into the past.

In the 2012 NOR, the rules said

4. ELIGIBILITY
These races are open to:
a. Any monohull of a design that has examples in the Northern California PHRF database, and/or at least 19 feet LOA
with at least 400 lb solid ballast

and

11. HANDICAP
a. Except as noted below, each monohulled boat must submit a current Northern California PHRF certificate issued by
Yacht Racing Association of San Francisco Bay, 415-771-9500, http://yra.org.
i. Boats belonging to organized one-design fleets, conforming to the class rules, do not require a certificate. They
will be scored with the one-design NCPHRF rating.
ii. Other monohulls of 19 feet LOA or greater, with 400 lb. minimum solid ballast, may enter one race per calendar
year without a certificate. The Race Committee will assign a rating which may not be appealed except by
submission of a current Northern California PHRF certificate.

But by the 2014 rules, this is tightened up to

11. HANDICAP
a. Each monohulled boat must submit its current Northern California PHRF certificate issued by the Yacht Racing
Association of San Francisco Bay, 415-771-9500, http://yra.org. Exceptions are boats belonging to organized one-
design fleets and which conform to their one-design class rules. These boats are not required to submit a PHRF
certificate. They will be scored with the NCPHRF rating listed for boats in that one-design class.

Incidentally, the change to allow prior-year certificates was made in the 2016 rules:

4. ELIGIBILITY
These races are open to:
a. Any monohull with a valid Northern California PHRF (NCPHRF) certificate issued by the Yacht
Racing Association of San Francisco Bay, 415-771-9500, http://yra.org.
...
d. A 2015 certificate will be accepted ONLY for the Three Bridge Fiasco; all other races will
require that a 2016 certificate be uploaded to complete each race registration.

Thank you for the prompt to look at the evolution of the rules. It's interesting to reflect on the likely tradeoffs that drove those changes.


Richard