Notice of Race

Swansea Bay
19th and 20^th October 2024

Location

Swansea Bay SA1 3SN

Joining Instructions

If coming from the East or West leave the M4 at junction 42 following signs to Swansea. Follow the A483 past  Amazon warehouse and continue until it’s end where you cross over The River Tawe, where the road becomes the A4067. Pass Sainsburys to your left following the signs to Mumbles and Gower.

Stay on the A4067 and pass under what can only be described as a banana bridge, Tesco will be on your right slightly after this.

You will come to a major set of traffic lights, turn left into the Civic Centre, it’s a large concrete building.

Take the first main right, in front of the building, then bear right until you arrive at Civic Centre west car park, where we have been allocated space

This is where we will park, rig our karts and probably carry out registration.

Once rigged, we will walk about 200m along the promenade to join the beach via a slipway.

Anyone who may have difficulty with this will receive assistance

Rules

Racing will be governed by IBRA Rules Edition 9

A full set of rules may be downloaded from the BLSA website www.theblsa.com

Changes may be made at the discretion of the race officer and entrants will be notified.

Entry Rules

Racing is open to all current BLSA members.

Registration is via The BLSA website shop, payment is by PayPal.

You will need to be logged into your own account to register for entry.

Last day for entry is 14th October 2024

Entry Fees

Adults  £41.00

Juniors £1.00

Transponders

Don’t forget your transponders.

Transponders will be available for hire at £10 per person, see option to hire when you register

First time racers will be provided with one for no charge.

Insurance

Current BLSA members will be covered, please ensure you display YOUR sail numbers on YOUR sail..

Disclaimer of liability

Competitors race entirely at their own risk.

The BLSA will not accept any liability for material loss, theft, damage, personal injury or death sustained in conjunction with, prior to, during or after racing.

The Race Officer reserves the right to remove any competitor from a race if they are considered a danger to themselves or others. Novice racers are most welcome and will be given a briefing on the start procedure and basic sailing rules.

Classification

Racing will be in both Production and Performance classes with the following weight classes

Lightweight  up to 75kg

Middleweight 75.01kg to 94.99kg

Heavyweight 95kg upwards.

Empty pockets and no shoes at weigh in, too cold to be in shorts and T shirts probably!

Scoring, Results and Prizes

1 pt for first

2 pt for 2nd

3pt for 3rd etc.

Prizes will be awarded for the top three placed pilots in each class and weight category.

Schedule

Saturday October 19th

From 9.00am, Registration, Scrutineering and Briefing.

First race from approximately 10.30am

Last race approximately 15.00hr, light dependent.

Sunday October 20^th

First race approximately 11.00am

Last race approximately 15.00hr

Prize giving approximately 16.30hr

Accommodation

Swansea, The Mumbles and The Gower are popular with tourists so there is a plethora of hotels, air Bnb, bed and breakfasts and campsites within a 20minute drive.

From a social aspect I would suggest The Mumbles, a 10 minute drive away.

Please be aware Swansea Bay is a public beach, the council are keen to support Blokarting at this venue.

It will be a great opportunity to showcase the sport

It may well be that members of the public will walk through the race area, which we will highlight as much as possible, if so we will need to stop racing until they clear the area.

Important numbers

Nick Trollope organiser  07465 224949