Vasco da Gama Yacht Rally 2007 -2008
Second Edition

The Rally Organisation:

Rally organiser is Lodewijk Brust, a  sailor with more than forty years of sailing experience. Brust has mainly been living on board of his yacht Mistral, a Southerly 135 for sixteen years now. He has sailed twice from the Netherlands to the Mediterranean, visiting most countries on the way. Brust was a committee-member of the EMYR Rally in 1996. Between 1998 and 2003, Brust sailed from Tunisia to India, Thailand and Malaysia, returning to Turkey single-handed in 2003. In 2005, Brust was part of the Vasco da Gama Rally, and is planning to sail back to Turkey in the winter 2006-2007.

Group-leaders:

Organisation and clear communication between individual participants is essential for a pleasant journey. The organiser of the rally proposes a system of ‘group-leaders’ for every combination of ten individual yachts. Group leaders will share responsibility of making the rally safe and as pleasant as possible for all participants. Group leaders will be informed of plans, changes and all information during regular briefing meetings. While underway, at regular intervals, they will inform their ‘groups’of progress details and all other information.
The responsibilities of  a group leader include:

• Distribution of navigation information to the group.
• Regular VHF communication with the group.
• In co-operation with the organisation and local port officials: to facilitate an orderly berthing or mooring of members of the group.
• Collection of contributions from the group for possible social functions requiring extra fees.
• Organising refilling water and fuel for the group.
• Group leaders might delegate some tasks to an individual member of the group.

FURTHER TASKS OF ADMINISTRATION:

Before leaving each port a briefing will be given. All the formalities will be described in the briefings. Assistance with the formalities will be provided at the harbours visited. All crewmembers must have a valid passport, not expiring before October 2008.

Each yacht must carry the following:

• 10 passport photo's for each crew member
• 25 copies of Crew list
• 10 Copies of each passports
• 20 copies of the Ships Papers
• Registration papers of pets (and some copies)
• Red Sea Pilot
• Paper Charts covering the area to be sailed
• Enough jerry cans for drinking water and fuel. In many places this is the only way to fill up your tanks.

Group-leaders are:

Group 1 :
Group 2 :
Group 3 :
Group 4 :
Group 5 :