IN SEARCH OF...MARGARITAVILLE
ISLAND INSTRUCTIONS
Welcome to "In Search of ...MARgaritavillE." It may be spring time in Chicagoland, but in MARgaritavillE it is always summer.
"In Search of...MARgaritavillE" is presented by the Brand-X Rallye Team. Your tour guide (rallyemaster) for tonight is Kathleen Orlowicz; she is assisted by the harbor master, Jeffery Lurie. You are responsible for understanding everything in these Island Instructions. Read them carefully. Self-address the envelope you received at Registration. There are no gimmicks with the decorative labels on your envelope. At 7:30 P.M. + 1/4 of your sailboat number in minutes, exchange your self-addressed envelope for your Course Headings. Leaving the starting point constitutes your acceptance of the legibility and completeness of the Island Instructions, Course Headings and Ship’s Log, and affirms that you have read any posted Island Mail at Registration. Tonight you must find your own MARgaritavillE. Avoid tourists and always take a key. Drive safely; obey all laws. Tonight all cars are "sailboats," so for goodness' sake don’t run aground.
FREE BRAND-X RALLYE SCHOOL:
The Free Brand-X Rallye school will begin at 6:30 P.M. Look for the “Rallye School” sign near Registration. If you are a first-timer, beginner, or novice, Brand-X strongly suggests you attend Rallye school. Bring something to write on and with. Make notes. The Brand-X Rallye Schoolmaster may answer general questions about anything regarding this rallye. There will be NO gimmicks with, at, or during Rallye School. We strongly suggest that you have a flashlight with you as some signs may be hard to see along tonight’s course. Flashlights are available at the Brand-X Boutique for only $2.00 (including batteries).
DRIVERS’ MEETING:
There will be a drivers’ meeting at 7:15 P.M. A minimum of one person from each sailboat must attend. Make notes at this meeting. There are starting point gimmicks.
WRITTEN QUESTIONS:
If you have a specific question about either the Island Instructions or the Course Headings, ask tonight’s tour guide or harbor master about it with a written question (no more than 5 questions at a time, please). Written questions can be submitted until 8:00 P.M., and the eighth deadly sin is pizza. General questions about rallying may be asked of any Brand-X member.
ISLAND MAIL:
Island Mail is additional information or instructions that have precedence over everything. Executable parts of Island Mail must be executed, if possible, only once at the first chance to do so. Island Mail may be posted or handed out at the registration car. You are responsible for seeking out and remembering all Island Mail. These Island Instructions are not to be considered as Island Mail. Island Mail must contain the words Island Mail to be valid.
PUPs AND HELPFUL INFORMATION:
Pick-up points (PUPs) in the Course Headings will be enclosed within double asterisks: **example**. PUPs will give a location to go and compass heading to point the direction. If you get lost, or find that you are running out of time, go to the next PUP and continue the rallye from there. Helpful information is enclosed in parentheses: (example). This is solely for safety or convenience and is not an executable part of any instructions. No gimmick will be based on the utilization of PUPs.
QUESTIONS:
You will be required to answer questions in the Course Headings from physical evidence found along your road. Each question will be designated by the letter ‘Q’ immediately followed by a number (example: Q33. Do you see anything?). Each question applies only between the completion point of the immediately preceding numbered Course Heading and the initiation point of the immediately following numbered Course Heading. Place your answers in the appropriate spaces on your Ship’s Log.
MARINA (endpoint):
This evening the Marina is pleasantly disguised as Barnaby’s, located along Golf Road just west of Roselle Road. Your due-in time is 10:30 P.M. + 1/4 of your sailboat number in minutes. Enter the Marina when you encounter it. Give your up-to-date Ship’s log and Jimmy Buffett quiz to the Marina worker located inside.
COURSE HEADINGS:
CH=Course Heading(s). NCH=Numbered Course Heading(s). LCH=Lettered Course Heading(s). There are two types of CHs: numbered and lettered. All NCHs must be executed in consecutive, ascending numerical order at the first chance to do so. Each NCH must be completely executed prior to going on to the next NCH. Each LCH applies from the completion point of the preceding NCH until the initiation point of the following NCH. Indicate on your Ship’s Log whether or not you executed each LCH during the period in which the LCH applies. Not all LCHs have to be executed to complete the rallye. Each LCH can be executed only once. If two or more LCHs can be executed at the same point, do only the applicable LCH that is highest alphabetically, unless otherwise stated. A is higher than B, B is higher than C, etc. Consider the Course Headings as one continuous page. Once you initiate a CH you must complete that CH.
ROUTE PROCEDURE:
Tonight's rallye requires you to travel on public road(s). Road segments labeled "NO OUTLET", "DEAD END", or "NOT HERE" are nonexistent, as are ALLEYS, DRIVEWAYS, and PARKING LOTS with the exception of those at the starting point and the Marina. Once you leave the starting point, roads entering Woodfield Mall are to be considered as entrances to a parking lot. St.=Road=Ave.=Lane, etc. Never execute a U-turn, except when in a cul-de-sac. Private drives do not exist. Gro=dela. Any course-following action must be executed at an intersection. Camellia does not exist.
ORDER OF PRECEDENCE:
When two or more different types of instructions could be executed at the same point, execute only the one of highest precedence (lowest numbered) that applies.
1. Island Mail.
2. Island Instructions, excluding obvious route.
3. NCHs.
4. LCHs.
5. Obvious route.
OBVIOUS ROUTE:
If no other instruction can be validly executed, utilize the following obvious route: 1. Right at Tee; 2. straight as possible, provided this does not conflict with obvious route 1.
SIGNS:
Anything in quotes in the CHs, "EXAMPLE", refers to a specific sign seen from the course. Signs referred to as signs in the CHs, except stop signs, must always be quoted. Signs may or may not be quoted in full, but when quoted must be quoted in contiguous order. Quoted signs will never be found attached to mailboxes or moving vehicles. Spacing and punctuation is irrelevant on signs. Tape and stick-on letters are to be considered as integral parts of the sign on which they appear. Separate signs on the same structure are considered the same sign. Signs may be to either side or in front of you. You will never be required to look behind you to read a sign. There is no differentiation between UPPER- and lower-case type, nor among type and printing and script. Spelling must be exact. Signs are to be read from left to right then top to bottom. Artwork is anything other than letters, numbers, arrows, and road depictions. Artwork on signs does not exist. Nametags are signs. “NO PARKING” signs do not exist. UL=OL.
SCORING:
Lowest score wins. You will receive 10 points for each error you make. You will receive 1 point for each minute or fraction thereof past your due-in time. You will receive from 10 points to disqualification for: hazardous checkpoint procedure, receiving a traffic citation, collaboration, or utilization of drugs prior to or during this event. We recommend the utilization of pencil on your Ship’s Log. Und=ware. Only members of the Scoring Committee can mark in red on your Ship’s Log. A Jimmy Buffett song quiz will be utilized as tonight’s tie breaker.
MISCELLANEOUS:
You are responsible for knowing your compass headings. The words North, South, East, West, N, S, E, W, Old and New, when utilized as prefixes on road name signs, are irrelevant. You must use the following only once: Biscayne, James, Florida, Carolina and right on Cutter. Also, you must go left on these only once: Kathleen and Longboat. Jimmy Buffett has played a Gibson guitar, so you should go left once at Gibson. Find your own=go left on. Tingal=garitavill.
DEFINITIONS : (Defined words are to be utilized only in their defined sense.)
AFTER: completely past the referenced sign, landmark or event.
AT: in the immediate proximity of.
COMPASS HEADING: North, South, East, West or combinations thereof.
CROSSROAD: the meeting and crossing of two or more roads. A Tee is never a crossroad.
DIRECTION: left, right.
4 WAY: an intersection at which traffic from four compass headings must stop.
INTERSECTION: the meeting and/or crossing of two or more roads.
RUN: Take.
SIDEROAD: a road that extends in only one direction from your road.
TAKE: Travel on.
TEE: an intersection in the general shape of the letter T, with a chance to go left and a chance to go right, but no chance to go straight. You must be traveling up the stem to consider it a tee. Lazy Tees are Tees.
TRAFFIC SIGNAL: an electrical device that controls traffic at an intersection.
TURN: change course by approximately 90 degrees. Turn can never be executed at a crossroad or a Tee.
STOP SIGN: a red and white sign containing the word 'STOP'. Stop signs are not recognizable from the back.
USE: Turn on.
YOUR ROAD: the road on which your sailboat is traveling or parked.
Now let us tell you about the 7 Deadly Sins:
1. Pride...Thou shalt not have pride in thy neighbor.
2. Coveting...Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor's wife.
3. Lust...Thou shalt not lust after thy neighbor's wife.
4. Anger...Thou shalt not be angry with thy neighbor's wife.
5. Gluttony...Thou shalt not eat thy neighbor's wife's ........popcorn.
6. Envy...Thou shalt not envy thy neighbor's wife.
7. Sloth...Thou shalt not be lazy, especially when thou breaketh the other six dealy sins and needeth to cover thy tracks.
