MMSI Group Number for Swiftsure Fleet – 031600081
Participants are encouraged to program the new Swiftsure Fleet Group MMSI into their DSC capable radios. This will provide the Race Committee with another tool to contact the whole fleet, if required. Any messages broadcast using DSC will also be broadcast on Marine 26 for those without DSC capability.
031600081 is the group number that can be programmed following your radios instructions for adding group contacts. This number will only be used for the Swiftsure International Yacht Race, so there is no need to remove after the race if you plan to return for future races.
Notices to Competitors will be updated throughout the 2019 race.
Jury Notices:
Protest Form – also requests for redress and reopening
Amendments to Yacht Registrations
The following amendments have been made registrations for Swiftsure .
Andromeda I
- May 23: change race to Cruising Flying Sails
baaad kitty!
- May 24: updated SPOT from SS056 to SS235
Bulletproof
- May 23: changed from L-2 to H-2
Equus
- May 23: div change from L-2 to H-1
Flight
- May 24: alternate sail number for spinnaker 8299
Image
- New ORC rating authorized by PRO 24 May. 0.9058:1.1671:1.3033
JAM
- May 23: rating corrected from 18 to 0
Kaysaren
- May 24: alternate sail numbers added 39339 and 29313
Kiva
- May 24: rating normalised to 69
La Lucha MOORE
- May 24: changed division from H-2 to L-2
Le reve
- May 23: withdrawal
Mangata
- May 24: division change from L2 to H2
Obsession
- Rating change authorized to 126. 24 May.
Sea Weasel
- May 23: withdrawal
Shadow II
- Update of rating iaw new certificate 23 May 19. l.3152:1.6411:1.8846
StarGazer
- May 24: withdrawn
Terna 111
- May 23: added two additional alternate sail numbers: 9515, 74407
Vigilant
- May 24: rating updated from 111 to 99
Westerly
- May 23: withdrawal
Whisper
- Whisper moved to Div. 1 Auth. DRO
Wild Blue
- May 23: rating changed from 54 to 57.
2019 Swiftsure Sail Numbers Report
2019 Swiftsure Yachts with Similar Names
Cruise Ship Movement in Victoria Harbour
2019 DRAFT cruise ship movements from Greater Victoria Harbour Authority’s Cruise Schedule.
Arrivals, departures at Ogden Point off Victoria’s waterfront on Saturday, May 25 through Monday, May 27:
| Port | 2019 Date | Cruise Ship | Arrival – Depart |
| Victoria | 25-May | SEVEN SEAS MARINER 709’ | 09:00-18:00 |
| Victoria | 25-May | OOSTERDAM 936’ | 18:00 23:30 |
| Victoria | 25-May | STAR PRINCESS 950’ | 19:00 23:59 |
| Victoria | 25-May | NORWEGIAN BLISS 1070’ | 19:30 23:59 |
| Victoria | 27-May | CARNIVAL LEGEND 963’ | 19:30 23:59 |
US Navy or Tank Ship Safe Passage
International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972
- starting at page 8 of Canada Shipping Act
Washington State law re Orcas
Washington State Law, RCW 77.15.740 makes it illegal to:
- Cause a vessel or other object to approach, in any manner, within two hundred yards of a southern resident orca whale
- Position a vessel to be in the path of a southern resident orca whale at any point located within four hundred yards of the whale. This includes intercepting a southern resident orca whale by positing a vessel so that the prevailing wind or water current carries the vessel into the path of the whale at any point located within four hundred yards of the whale
- Fail to disengage the transmission of a vessel that is within two hundred yards of a southern resident orca whale; or
- Feed a southern resident orca whale.
Detail of Washington State Law, RCW 77.15.740