NABX Racing Rules
These rules are designed to be simple and enforceable. They have evolved to reduce manipulative games based on rules rather than ability. We are a spectator sport and our rules are designed to enable open and fair racing, where the winner is the winner, not decided in a protest room. It is our desire to avoid the complicated right of way rules which plague yachting.
1. A race judge will be appointed before the start of the meeting whose
judgment is agreed to be impartial and non-partisan and that judge has the
power to black flag competitors out for blatant obstruction, unsafe
behavior or buggy "hunting", incompetence to the point where it is
generally preventing the fair conduct of the race and team racing. (Team
racing is defined as a buggier fouling out another competitor to advantage
some associated competitor).
2. For multi-buggy races we do not outlaw obstructing in general with
exception of deliberate or blatant obstruction, the judgment on obstruction
is made on whether the alleged obstruction could reasonably have some other
credible reason for doing whatever it was anyway - e.g. had no choice, was
just incompetent, tacked expecting a wind shift etc.
3. That for multi-buggy events, starts will be so that each buggy has at
least 10/15m clear laterally to each adjacent buggy and that the first leg
will be from a line set at the most upwind part of the course directly to
the most downwind mark without requirement to round other marks on the
way.
4. Preliminary heats will be used to help reduce fields to less than 10
buggies per race if space is a problem.
5. A competitor's buggy cannot be moved once they are off the buggy unless
it is to retrace their initial course.
6. Races will start at a predesignated time. Race times and locations will be published in advance. The race starts when the horn blows at the strike
of the race clock unless conditions are unsafe. A warning signal consisting
of two short blasts of a horn will be given two minutes prior to the
scheduled start time.
7. Subject to safety and race committee decision, there will be no defined
minimum or maximum winds.
8. A pass will be registered only after the next mark is rounded.
9. Points will be awarded as follows: The winner of each race will receive
zero points, all other finishers will receive points equal to their
finishing place. Racers who do not finish a race will receive points equal
to the average of the number of participants who started the race and the
number of finishers plus one. (See scoring for more detailed explanation)
10. Upwind racers must yield to downwind racers.
Who has the right to go first? These rules give the right-of-way to no
one - it only says who must yield (give up) the right-of-way. Each
racer must do everything possible to avoid a collision.
THESE RULES WILL BE CONFIRMED PRIOR TO THE EVENT COMMENCING, AND ARE
SUBJECT TO VARIATION AND INTERPRETATION BY THE RACE COMMITTEE.
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