Special MASSA Regatta rules: (1) 8th grade students from feeder schools will be allowed to sail at district regattas except for the district eliminations (they are not allowed to sail at the ISSA National level). (2) Unofficial high school (grade 8 through 12) teams (a second JV team from a school already participating in the regatta, a team made up of members from different schools, or a non-member team) may sail at MASSA regattas on a space available basis. (3) SPECIAL CLOTHING, e.g. wet or dry suits, may be required by the race committee at any MASSA regatta. (4) Red flags must be flown to signify a protest unless otherwise specified by the race committee.

Awards and District Season Championship Scoring: First, Second, and Third place District Double-handed and Fleet Racing Championship trophies will be awarded for fall and spring season championships, and for the Cressy District Qualifiers for the National Cressy Championships. The 2004 winter membership meeting specified that all doublehanded District regattas must accomodate at least 18 teams.

District Regattas: District Team Racing regattas will be scheduled for a Saturday with Sunday reserved for racing if enough races can't be held on Saturday to complete an official regatta. District Fleet Racing regattas, other than a National Qualifier, will be held on 1 day only. The Baker Qualifier and the Mallory Qualifier for the respective national championships will be 2 day events. For Mallory Qualifier, races will end at 2pm on Sunday or the completion of 1 full round robin, whichever comes first. For the Baker Qualifier, the 1st day is seeded qualifiers using whatever local facilities to maximize participants with the goal of qualifying teams for the 2nd day. The Cressy Qualifier will be scheduled as a 2 day event but can be completed in 1 day if sufficient races are completed.
Backups for Qualifiers: If a full regatta can't be completed at the District spring fleet racing qualifier regatta for the National Mallory Championship, the backup selections for the Mallory would be based on the results of the District fall fleet racing championship. If a full regatta can't be completed at the final District spring team racing qualifier regatta for the National Baker Championship, the backup selections for the Baker would be based on the results of the District fall team racing championship. The teams eligible for selection based on the fall regattas shall be limited to the teams who qualified at the local league to attend the corresponding (fleet or team racing) spring District Qualifiers

Regatta Allocations: The number of teams that each league can send to each season's district fleet racing and team racing regatta will be calculated based on each leagues's proportion of the total district membership.
Fleet Racing:
Fall Season: Calculations will be based on the membership numbers at the end of the spring season. This follows the precedent set by the ISSA method of calculating the district allocations to attend national championships.
Spring Season: In accordance with the decision at the 2007-8 MASSA meeting: Allocations for district fleet racing events will be based on the ratio of the number of teams in a league that have been actively fleet racing throughout the season, divided by the number of teams actively fleet racing in the district throughout the season. The League Directors will provide these numbers to the District Director by the Tuesday prior to the weekend before the District Fleet Racing Regatta to give the District sufficient time to calculate allocation numbers by the weekend before the District Fleet Racing Regatta. League Director will provide the names of the team that will attend the District event the Monday before the event. Each league will be allowed a minimum of 1 team to attend the District Fleet Racing Regatta. If the District holds a semifinal preliminary fleet racing regatta to select teams to attend a final District Fleet Racing Regatta, the allocation system will apply only to the semifinal preliminary fleet racing regatta. For the purposes of allocations, active participation includes sailors that signed up for an event that was cancelled by weather or other major emergencies.
Team Racing: Fall and Spring Seasons: In accordance with the decision at the 2007-8 MASSA meeting: Allocations for district team racing events will be based on the ratio of the number of teams in a league that have been actively team racing throughout the season, divided by the number of teams actively team racing in the district throughout the season. The League Directors will provide these numbers to the District Director by the Tuesday prior to the weekend before the District Team Racing Regatta to give the District sufficient time to calculate allocation numbers by the weekend before the District Team Racing Regatta. League Director will provide the names of the team(s) that will attend the District event the Monday before the event. Each league will be allowed a minimum of 1 team to attend the District Team Racing Regatta. If the District holds a semifinal preliminary team racing regatta to select teams to attend a final District Team Racing Regatta, the allocation system will apply only to the semifinal preliminary team racing regatta. For the purposes of allocations, active participation includes sailors that signed up for an event that was cancelled by weather or other major emergencies.
Calculations: In accordance with the decision at the 2004 MASSA winter membership meeting, if any boats are left over that can't be divided equally, i.e. if, with 4 leagues, the calculation ends up with 3 boats left over, they will be allocated to the league in which the regatta is located. Note that the calculations will be averaged so that a boat quota of 4.50 will count as a 5 boat quota but 4.454545 will count as 4 boats. Furthermore, if this results in an allocation of more boats than are available, the extra boats left before averaging will be allocated in turn to the highest number of those above x.5 until no boats are left. The need for this split is evident when using Spring 05 numbers of 57 MASSA memberships and the following league numbers: NW=5, NE=26, Central=16, & South=10, for a 20 team regatta, NW calculates as 1.7, NE as 9.1, Central as 5.6, & South as 3.5) for a total of 21 boats if you average NW, Central and South up to 2, 6, & 4, respectively!!! The top down averaging system will result in an allocation of NW=2, NE=9, Central=6, & South=3 for a total of 20 boats.

League Signups: Team Attendance: A league must fill their allocated slots at a district event by the Monday before the event by notifying the host league director, and the district director. Any drop outs after this can be filled by the league in which the event is being held. If a team drops out after that Monday commitment the team will forfeit their qualification slot for the next district event for which they would otherwise be qualified by their league to attend. The District Director may waive this penalty for valid reason, e.g. if the team had no way of knowing that it was not able to participate in the regatta until too late.