Supernova Dinghy Fleet Divisions
Background:
The 2023 AGM voted in favour of establishing five fleets: Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze and Beginner. The aim is to reflect the wide range of expertise and experience of Supernova sailors, spread the prizes more evenly through the fleet, encourage competition at every level and provide extra incentive for sailors to progress.
Since then the committee has agreed to award essential additional awards at Championship events, for First Female, First Youth and other meritorious awards such as best club and best family results.
Fleets are recalculated after each Inland Championship (to align with the travellers events). And may be updated after any other Championship event, or at the discretion of the committee at any time.
Important - anyone in any Division can win any event and individuals will only be eligible to win a single prize at prize givings.
Automatic Advancement at Championship Events:
In the situation that a member achieves a podium result at any Championship event they will be automatically advanced into the Platinum Fleet. This will apply from and including that event and all events for the remaining period until the next reassessment of Fleets.
This Automatic Advancement principle applies to all fleets in championship events, such that all of the fleet podiums are available to all competing members, and the podium positions will persist after the championship event until the next fleet position assessment. So for example, if a Bronze fleet competitor achieves a Gold or Silver podium position, they are automatically advanced to that fleet, both for the championship awards and the remainder of the year.
It is up to host clubs of travellers events to decide how they award prizes at events, but considering the Fleet system is encouraged where large turnouts allow additional prizes.
*The Committee and the Fleet Manager reserves the right to allocate sailors to another Fleet based on past performance in another class or in the Supernova Class.
Fleet allocatons
The Platinum, Gold and Silver Fleets for 2025 can be found in the link HERE, so click on that to see where you are.
Criteria
The criteria for the Fleets are as follows:
Platinum recognises the elite performers, including those who have won a Supernova National Championship over the last ten years, plus those who, during the previous season, have achieved any of the following:
- Top 10% overall at Nationals or Inlands
- Winner of any of the Travellers’ circuits (Combined, North or South)
- Winner of the Gold Division at Nationals or Inlands
Gold consists of those who don’t qualify as Platinum but, during the previous season, have achieved any of the following:
- Top 25% overall at Nationals or Inlands
- Top three of the Silver Division at Nationals or Inlands
- Top three in any of the Travellers’ circuits (Combined, North or South)
- Winner of any open meeting
Silver consists of those who don’t qualify as Platinum or Gold but, during the previous season, have achieved any of the following:
- Top 50% overall at Nationals or Inlands
- Top five in the Bronze Division at Nationals or Inlands
- Top five in any open meeting
Bronze consists of those who don’t qualify in Platinum, Gold or Silver and is the default for most sailors. It is also the fleet that new sailors will enter by default. At National events, any Bronze division member who gains a final result above the top 30% will be automatically advanced into the Silver division for awards in that event, and into their qualifying division for the following year.
Beginner is sub-division of Bronze and can be opted into at the start of an event by sailors who would like to be in this Division. Should a Beginner finish in the top 70% at any event they will be Automatically Advanced to be Bronze classification for that event and year remaining, and into their qualifying division for the following year.
(All percentages will be rounded down and based on boats competing not boats entered e.g 102 boats registered, but 99 competing, top 10% is positions 1-9)