Call for Wallace Cup Regatta Entries

The Oakland Yacht Club invites all PICYA Member Clubs located in the East Bay to compete for the W. C.
Wallace Perpetual Trophy on Saturday afternoon, October 6, 2007.

Each club may enter up to three mono-hull, fixed-keel boats of at least 20’ overall length, each with a valid current
PHRF certificate from the SF Bay YRA. Each skipper must be the registered or documented owner of the boat and
a member of the entering club. Upon request made at the time of submission of the entry, the Race Committee may
make adjustments to a yacht's rating for headsail size and spinnaker/non-spinnaker if the adjustment is obvious
from the PHRF guidelines.

All boats will race in a single fleet in one race in the South Bay, subject to time-on-distance PHRF
handicapping, and there will be a single winner on corrected time. This is, however, not a team race. The
Revised Rules of Sailing 2005-08 will govern.

The winning skipper’s club will be entitled to possession of the Wallace Cup for twelve months from the date of the
race or until two weeks before the next running of the Wallace Cup Regatta, whichever is earlier, at which time the
winning skipper’s club must return it to the OYC. However, because the trophy is virtually irreplaceable, the
possession of the Wallace Cup will not be transferred to the winning skipper’s club until Oakland Yacht Club’s
Commodore is satisfied with the physical facility for storage and display of the Cup and with the insurance
arrangements for it.

Entries must be received by the Oakland Yacht Club by mail, by hand delivery or by fax ((510) 522-7378)
before the close of business on Sunday, September 23, 2007. Race instructions will be mailed to each entered skipper and
club by Monday September 29, 2007 

Update:  We'll accept entries received by  Friday Oct 5th if accompanied by a current PHRF certificate.

An entry form is attached and will be available on the Oakland Yacht Club web site. There is no entry fee.
Entries will be accepted only from the clubs themselves.

After the race the Wallace Cup will awarded at OYC at 1800 hours or as soon as any protest involving first place
has been resolved. Please contact Steve Shaffer sjshaffer {at} sbcglobal.net (510-865-5726) with any
questions about the race.

We look forward to the competition and hope you will enter.

Sincerely,
Michael Hershey
Commodore Oakland
Yacht Club