Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. A Race Committee is responsible for organizing and running a sailboat regatta. The responsibilities of this committee include informing participants, ensuring the venue is set up and ready, holding a Skippers'' Meeting (usually on the morning of the first day of racing), running the actual race, and generating results. Generally, the Race Committee first sends out a Notice Of Race (NOR), usually months in advance. A set of Sailing Instructions (SI''s) are also produced. SI''s are sometimes distributed a day or two before the event, sometimes at the Skippers'' Meeting. The Skippers'' Meeting is usually held on the morning of the regatta. Last-minute updates to the documentation are provided at this point, including race schedule updates, course corrections, local weather conditions, hazardous aspects of the course, and so forth.