PCISA has launched its latest effort to replace our District CFJ Sails. We have ordered 42 sets of New North CFJ Sails to arrive before the ISSA Dinghy National Championship (Mallory) Regatta that PCISA will host at Mission Bay Yacht Club on June 4-5, 2022.
Therefore, we are beginning the process of selling the old sails and fundraising to purchase another 22 sets of sails by the Fall Season.
We are now selling 42 sets of the current PCISA CFJ Sails. These were purchased in 2018 and have been only used for major regattas since then. And of course, from March 10, 2020, until May 1, 2021, the sails were not used at all.
The sails have been carefully maintained including washing and drying on regular intervals and they are stored in a cool dry place in the rafters of the US Sailing Center. The sails are currently in very good to excellent condition with lots of serviceable life remaining. The design and materials have been custom developed for durability and performance by North Sails over the past several decades to serve the unique institutional yet highly competitive needs of PCISA.
As we have done for several decades, we are selling these sails first to the member institutions and supporting organizations of PCISA. It is our hope that this allows our teams to have high quality sails for a reasonable price to support the development of our sailors at the grass roots.
By going to the LINK BELOW you can order these sails for $600 per set. Sails of this type currently sell new for at least $1,037.00++ (plus tax & shipping - generally more than $1200 per set). Money from the sale of these sails will help fund the purchase of the new PCISA District CFJ sails. These sails can be picked up from the US Sailing Center-Long Beach, CA after June 5, 2022.
$600.00 each set (Main and Jib in Roll Sail bag). Battens Included. No Jib Sheets.
Version 3.92 dated January 15, 2002 includes enhancements for screen colors, rotation text file output, and author's new E-mail address. It includes Version 3.91 updates to comply with the 2001 procedural rules. Please delete all previous versions of the program and download this copy today. The most significant change is that DNS, RAF (a.k.a. RET,WTD), & DSQ are scored as the fleet +1 instead of the previous +2.
BY-LAWS
of the
PACIFIC COAST INTERSCHOLASTIC SAILING ASSOCIATION
(as approved at the 9/18/05 annual membership meeting of PCISA)
Article I. Name
The name of the organization shall be the Pacific Coast Interscholastic Sailing Association (PCISA).
Article II. Objective
The objective of the Association shall be to further the sport of sailing among secondary schools in the Pacific Coast district of the Interscholastic Sailing Association (ISSA) and to organize and schedule competition for these schools using standard rules and procedures.
Article III. Membership
Section 1. Any schools within the Pacific Coast district of the ISSA in compliance with all of the requirements of these By-laws and the PCISA Rules shall be a Member School.
Section 2. Each Member School must complete, annual ISSA and PCISA Membership Forms including a complete team roster and pay dues.
Article IV. Leagues
Section 1. PCISA shall be organized into the following geographical leagues:
1. Northern California (generally schools north of Santa Barbara).
2. Southern California (generally schools from, and including, Santa Barbara south).
3. Hawaii (generally schools from Hawaii).
Section 2. The Board of Directors shall assign member schools to the appropriate league.
Article V. Officers
Section 1. Officers shall be selected from the Board of Directors.
Section 2. There shall be a President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer.
Section 3. The President or his designee shall also serve as the PCISA representative to ISSA.
Section 4. The Vice President shall serve as President in his/her absence.
Section 5. The Treasurer shall be responsible for the management of the daily finances of the PCISA under the direction of the Board.
Section 6. The President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer shall also serve on an Executive Committee formed by the Board of Directors that shall be comprised of the four Officers and three additional Directors. The Executive Committee shall be empowered by the Board of Directors to be responsible for the regular business of PCISA between meetings of the Board.
Section 7. All Officers and members of the Executive Committee shall be appointed by, and serve at the discretion of, the Board of Directors.
Section 8. The normal term of all officers shall be two years.
Article VI. Board of Directors
Section 1. PCISA shall be governed by a Board of Directors.
Section 2. The Board shall be made up of between eight and fifteen Directors.
Section 3. The normal term of a Director shall be two years.
Section 4. One half of the Directors shall be nominated by the Board each year and approved as a slate by a majority of the Members at the Annual Meeting. The other half shall be nominated and approved in the same manner in alternate years so that no more than one half of the Board will turnover in any one year.
Section 5. Vacancies on the Board occurring mid-term shall be filled by the Board of Directors.
Section 6. In the nomination process and in filling vacancies an effort shall be made to select Directors in a manner calculated to provide for representation on the Board of each of the areas with the PCISA (i.e. San Diego, Newport Beach, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, Monterey, Palo Alto, Marin, Richmond, Oakland and two for Hawaii).
Section 7. The Board of Directors shall have regular meeting twice annually (“Regular Meeting”). Any three Directors may call a special meeting of the Board of Directors. The Directors requesting a special meeting must give on less than 7 days notice to all members of the Board of the time, place and subject of the special meeting.
Section 8. At any meeting a majority of the then serving Directors shall constitute a quorum.
Section 9. Any action that can be taken by the Board of Directors at a meeting of the Board may also be taken by unanimous consent of the directors in lieu of a meeting.
Section 10. In addition to the Executive Committee, the Board of Directors may create as many subcommittees or working groups as the Board sees fit, and delegate to said subcommittee or working group the authority the Board feels is appropriate. Except that financial authority shall rest exclusively in the Board and no committee, subcommittee or individual Director shall have authority to spend money or otherwise obligate PCISA financially.
Article VII. Membership Meetings
Section 1. Membership Meetings. The Member Schools shall have a regular meeting annually (“Annual Membership Meeting”). The Annual Membership Meeting shall be held at a time and place selected by the President and noticed through publication via the PCISA District Email Distribution System..
Section 2. Business. At the Annual Membership Meeting the President shall make a report to the Member schools on the business of PCISA and plans for the upcoming year. The President shall also present the slate of Directors nominated by the Board for approval by the Members. Each Member School present shall have one vote.
Section 3. The President shall run all PCISA meetings.
Article VIII. Dues
Section 1. Member schools shall pay annual dues, in addition to the ISSA dues, in an amount to be set by the Board of Directors from time to time.
Section 2. To be eligible to sail in any PCISA fall event, dues must be received by the President, or his appointee before the event.
Section 3. Dues shall be used for the benefit of PCISA in the discretion of the Board of Directors. The Board shall have the right to authorize any Officer to expend money in that Officer’s discretion.
Article IX. Rules
PCISA, acting through its Board of Directors, shall adopt rules to govern its administration and competition, including rules related to disciplining a competitor or team. The Rules may be adopted and amended, from time to time, by majority vote of the Board of Directors. Participation in a PCISA event shall be deemed a Member school’s knowledge, understanding and agreement to abide by the PCISA and ISSA rules on behave of the Member School and all of its students staff, representatives and parents.
Article X. Amendments
These By-Laws may be amended by a majority vote of the Directors at a properly called meeting.
2015 – 2016 SUPPLEMENTAL RULES FOR PACIFIC COAST INTERSCHOLASTIC SAILING ASSOCIATION “PCISA”
Updated September 18, 2013
These Supplemental Rules are in addition to the procedural Rules for Interscholastic Sailing Competition sponsored by the Interscholastic Sailing Association. Go to www.hssailing.org
1. Organization
1.1 The PCISA By-Laws (adopted December 11, 2005) are the governing document of the association.
1.2 An annual PCISA membership meeting will be held between September and January of each school year as determined by the PCISA Board of Directors.
2. Eligibility
2.1 All schools must be members in good standing of PCISA.
2.2 All competitors must be full-time students, in the 8th grade or higher, of the school they represent, and subject to the academic and discipline requirements of that school.
2.3 An 8th grade student attending a feeder school to the high school may sail the non-qualifying regattas (the five (5) 10% regattas). If a school enters a JV teams, an 8th grade student may not sail for any team.
2.4. Each team will be allowed one "borrowed sailor" in order to complete a four-man team (A & B Division). This sailor must be an eligible high school sailor registered to another PCISA Team and may sail as a crew only. This "borrowed sailor" may only sail in the five 10% PCISA regattas. “Borrowed Sailors” must be noted on the RP Forms including the name of the school with whom he/she is registered with on the ISSA Online Database. Schools which compete using a “Borrowed Sailor” at two or more PCISA 10% regattas during a given school year are then ineligible to compete using a “Borrowed Sailor” at any PCISA regatta in the subsequent school year. This provision is intended to discourage the perpetual use of “Borrowed Sailors”, and encourage teams to recruit complete rosters over time. The PCISA Board may modify this restriction in extenuating circumstances.
2.5 Home school student(s) may participate upon approval of PCISA President by declaring the student(s) associated with a team within the student‘s school district.
3. Boats
3.1 Club FJ’s shall be used for all two-man events for California events only. The regattas shall be round robin. Each team must bring one boat with sails and equipment, in good working order. (PCISA may provide sails).
4. Conduct of Regattas
4.1 Partial or “Split” Teams: When an eligible school can field only a single dinghy crew (comprised of two eligible individuals from the same school) for a PCISA 10% regatta, that team may compete in either division A or B division, under the following conditions:
4.1.1 They must register, or be paired by PCISA officials, in conjunction with another school in the same situation (aka a “spilt team”), in order to balance entries in A & B divisions. To prevent confusion in the standard registration process, partial teams wishing to be paired in this manner must obtain written (email) authorization from the Regatta Chairman and PCISA representative.
4.1.2 A Partial Team may only sail in the non-qualifying events, which consist of five (5) PCISA regattas (Anteater, Rose Bowl, Golden Bear, Gaucho and Sea Otter).
4.1.3 Partial teams are eligible to complete in Silver Fleet only. However, PCISA reserves the right to make specific exceptions based on competitive and fleet size considerations.
4.1.4 Such partial teams will be scored individually based on the division they are competing in, and shall be scored a DNF for the other division.
4.1.5 Schools which compete as a partial team at two or more PICSA 10% regattas during a given school year are then ineligible to compete as a partial team at any PCISA regatta in the subsequent school year. This provision is intended to discourage “perpetual split teams,” and encourage teams to recruit complete rosters over time. The PCISA Board may modify this restriction in extenuating circumstances.
4.2 Junior Varsity: A school must obtain PCISA approval to enter a Junior Varsity (JV1) team. In order to be considered for approval, a school must have a minimum of 13 full-time members participating in an active sailing program.
4.3 Junior Varsity 2: A school must obtain PCISA approval to enter a second Junior Varsity (JV2) team. In order to be considered for approval, a school must have a minimum of 21 full-time members participating in an active sailing program.
4.4 Junior Varsity 3: A school must obtain PCISA approval to enter a third Junior Varsity (JV3) team. In order to be considered for approval, a school must have a minimum of 30 full-time members participating in an active sailing program.
4.5 Junior Varsity: A junior varsity team may only sail in the non-qualifying events, which consist of five (5) regattas (Anteater, Rose Bowl, Golden Bear, Gaucho and Sea Otter). A junior varsity sailor may not transfer to the varsity during the event.
5. Substitutions
5.1 In fleet racing there shall be no limitations on substitutions during a regatta except, when there are two or more divisions, an individual:
A. After competing as a skipper, shall not sail in any other Division, but
B. After as crew may shift to another Division as skipper or crew but thereafter sail only in that Division.
6. Protest
6.1 A boat intending to protest shall always inform the other boat at the first reasonable opportunity. When her protest concerns an incident in the racing area that she is involved in or sees, she shall hail the word “Protest” at the first reasonable opportunity. When the identity of the protested boat could be uncertain, the boat’s sail number shall be included in the hail. Failure of a hailed boat to hear the hail shall not, by itself, be grounds for closing the protest (Replaces RRS 61.1(a).
6.2 The Protest Committee may hear protests in between races.
7. Discipline
7.1 No contestant shall use, either on or off the water, alcoholic beverages (beer, wine, distilled spirits) or use any controlled substance (marijuana, cocaine, etc.), the possession of which is unlawful. Infringements of this regulation will be the basis for disciplinary action.
7.2 No contestant shall use foul language. Continued infringement of this regulation will be the basis for disciplinary action.
7.3 The PCISA Board of Director’s or their designated PCISA representative has jurisdiction over disciplinary matters.
8. Qualification – Double-handed
8.1 10% score each for the best three of five PCISA regattas (Anteater, Rose Bowl, Golden Bear, Gaucho and Sea Otter Regattas).
8.2 Hawaiian schools must participate in at least one PCISA (10%) event in order to qualify for the Gold PCC’s. The PCISA Executive Committee will determine the 30% score.
8.3 70% score for the Pacific Coast Championships. The Gold PCC’s will be limited to 20 schools from California and 2 schools from Hawaii.
8.4 One team (A & B Maximum 8 Sailors) from each eligible and qualifying PCISA member school is eligible based upon the above requirements.
8.5 The Silver Championship Regatta will not allow a sailor who has been a skipper in more than one 10% regatta in the gold fleet during the current PCISA season to participate as a skipper or crew.
9. Qualification – Single-handed
9.1 One qualifier regatta sailed in both full rig and radial rig Lasers shall be held prior to the Cressy.
10. Qualification – Team Racing
10.1 One team race regatta shall be held in the spring.
11. Open Regattas
11.1 All open regattas will be available to any school.
12. Gold & Silver
12.1 Teams at PCISA regattas will sail in either Gold or Silver. At the beginning of each season, PCISA representatives will seed the teams in the Gold and Silver fleets. Once in each fleet, any team may request to move. However, the top three teams in Silver and the bottom three Gold teams will be given consideration for a move.
13. PCISA Regatta Entries
13.1 All PCISA major regatta (10%, PCC’s, etc.) entries must be submitted by Friday, 5:00 PM, two weeks preceding the weekend event. Late entries will be accepted at the discretion of the host and PCISA and do to circumstances related to rules 13.2 & 13.3 below most often will not be accepted at all.
13.2 Regatta Oversubscription: If more than 60 teams register for any PCISA 10% regatta, entries will be declined in the following order until 60 or less teams are entered: (1) JV3 Teams; (2) Split Teams; (3) JV2 Teams; (4) Teams using a “Borrowed Sailor” (PCISA Rule 2.4); (5) JV1 Teams. Entries being declined will be notified as soon as possible after the Entry Deadline via email. The PCISA Board will have final entry authority
13.3 No-Show Penalty – Teams registering for 10% Regattas or PCC’s (Gold or Silver) that do not notify the Regatta Host and the PCISA that they are unable to attend by the Regatta Entry Deadline and subsequently do not attend the regatta will be charged a “No-Show Penalty” of $100 payable to PCISA. This is in addition to the “no-refund” of entry fees after the entry deadline policy (except for entries declined under rule 4.6). Teams that have not paid their “No- Show” penalties are not eligible for PCISA regattas until these fees are paid.
14. The Disney Cup
14.1 An overall trophy will be awarded to the top school and awarded points for 9 regattas. Conditions are available here.
1 PCC’s
5 PCISA 10% Regattas
2 Cressy Eliminations
1 Team Race Regatta
History of Pacific Coast Interscholastic Sailing
By Bill Wakeman
My involvement in what has become the Pacific Coast Interscholastic Sailing Association (PCISA) started back in the 1940’s when my father, Norm Wakeman, was advisor to the Muir Junior College Sailing Club in Pasadena, and he and Bob Allen were working to create the Pacific Coast Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association [1]. Much later, about 1964, when I as involved in the Inter-Collegiates at California State College at Long Beach, Dave Ullman, then a Student at Newport Harbor High, and Kim Desenberg, who was at Corona del Mar High, asked me to run a sailing competition between the two school; that was the real beginning of the high school sailing program as it exists today.
When I started as a teacher at Newport Harbor High in 1972, I was immediately involved with the sailing Club, and it was not long before we heard from other sailing clubs that wanted to compete in inter-school events. Jack MacAleer had a competitive sailing team at Catalina Island School, and there was also a sailing team at Harvard School in North Hollywood. Carl Reinhart, who was in charge of the sailing program at UC Irvine, supported our activities, and, with four schools we put together a match racing event in Shields, the Reinhart Perpetual, and a Pacific Coast High School Championship, the Catalina Challenge Cup[2].
Also in 1972, A. Lagare Van Ness, who was then assistant headmaster at Denton School, together with Quentin McGown and Lee Smith, of the Fort Worth Boat Club, put together the Cotton Bowl Regatta. The Cotton Bowl was a series of match races sailed at the boat club during the week between Christmas and New Year’s. It was an ideal time slot and drew the best high school sailing teams from all over the nation. At its prime, the list of people attending the Cotton Bowl read like “Who’s Who” in youth sailing, and included Gary Jobson, Brad Dellenbaugh, Toby Baker[3], Pat Healy to only name a few.
The Cotton Bowl gave West Coast sailors something to shoot for and for ten years it was really the main event. Between 1972 and 1982, Newport Harbor High, and Wilson High School of Long Beach each won it three times while Corona del Mar High School won it twice. To give us even more enthusiasm, Pat Healy, who was then in charge of U.S. Naval Academy Sailing, put together the Naval Academy High School Regatta in which we first competed in 1977. The Newport Harbor High School Team of Steve Schock, Nick Madigan, Dave Clark, Brooks Benjamin, and Steve Arrigo amazed and delighted themselves by returning home from the 1977 Naval Academy High School Regatta with five of the six trophies given at that event. The High School Regatta became the Cressy Regatta[4] in 1979 and later New England added their Mallory Trophy; finally we had a real and accepted national high school championship and a reason to have not only a national organization, but also a Pacific Coast organization.
In the mean time some real advances had been made at home. In 1974, with the help of Judy Franco, then PTA President for the Newport-Mesa School District, sailing became and official school sport at Newport Harbor High and at Corona del Mar High, and by 1980 we even began to receive varsity letters. Newport, CdM, and Long Beach Wilson were still the dominant “Big Three” of the Pacific Coast with only occasional interest from various other schools such as Servite, Laguna, and Dana Hills, and there were hints of a threat from the San Diego schools. In the early 1980’s Joni Palmer became the Junior Sailing Director for the San Diego Yacht Club, and suddenly instead of three dominant Pacific Coast high schools we had six, enough that we began seriously to consider ourselves as a district organization.
The Reinhart Perpetual and the Catalina Challenge have faded from existence but Joyce Ibbetson and Peter Newbre at UC Irvine initiated the Anteater Regatta which now opens our Pacific Coast high school sailing season in early December. Mike Segerblom includes a high school division at the Inter-collegiate Rose Bowl Regatta, sponsored at New Year’s by the University of Southern California. In Northern California, Blake Middleton at Stanford University, sponsors a high school invitational regatta early in the spring. We now have a Pacific Coast Championship Regatta, a Pacific Coast Team Racing Championship, and a Single Handed Championship which brings the total number of PCISA events to six. This year we have twelve member schools.
Much of the current success of the PCISA is the result of the efforts of Tim Hogan and Mike Segerblom to promote the Club FJ’s and the yacht clubs who have bought those boats to promote junior sailing. Without a large fleet of two-man one design boats to draw from, we would not be able to host events such as last year’s Baker Regatta, and this year’s Cressy/Mallory National High School Championship.
April 1993
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[1] Organized into the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association (PCIYRA), renamed the Pacific Coast Collegiate Sailing Conference (PCCSC) in 2006.
[2] Renamed the William
[3] The Interscholastic Sailing Association (ISSA) national team race championship trophy is named after Toby Baker.
[4] ISSA Singlehanded Championship sailed in Lasers and Laser Radials
PCISA sponsors five district regattas and four Pacific Coast Championships Regattas (Dinghies Gold & Silver, Single-Handed and Team Racing), with the top schools qualifying to sail in the National Championships. The National Championships are held in the double handed class (Mallory Trophy), the single handed class (Cressy Trophy) and team racing (Baker Trophy). Sailors from the PCISA District won the Cressy Radial Championship and the Mallory Championships in 2007.
Currently there are over 80 schools registered in our district and it is the largest district in ISSA. The format for high school sailing includes single handed (Lasers and Laser Radials) and double handed (CFJ and 420s). Eligibility is open to both boys and girls in grades 9 through 12. For more information, contact PCISA.
