DUES
"Section 2. To be eligible to sail in a District event that does not require allocations for League attendance, e.g. the fall District Qualifier for the Cressy single-handed Nationals, school dues must be received by the District Director at least one week before the District event or paid directly at the on-site registration for the District event. To be eligible to sail in fall or spring District events for which League allocations must be calculated, school dues must have been received by the District Director, or an official League representative, 10 days prior to that District event. In addition to the dues being received, an application for registration or reregistration must have been completed in the ISSA membership database on the ISSA website."

Special MASSA Regatta rules: (1) Students attending feeder schools in grades under 9th grade will be allowed to sail in league and district regattas, except for the district eliminations for national events since they are not allowed to sail at the ISSA National level in accordance with ISSA Official Procedural Rules, Part III(1.2).  A feeder school is one in which, after a particular student graduated from it, he or she would attend the high school with the team that they would be sailing on as an 8^th (or lower) grader.  If a fall regatta is used as a backup qualifier for a national championship, then any teams that had students under 9th grade sailing in that event would not be qualified to participate in that national championship.
(2) Unofficial high school teams (with a student(s) under 9th grade, 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) The following rule will take effect beginning with the 2011 fall season:  Team Uniforms - All student-athletes competing in MASSA doublehanded championship regattas shall wear a uniform designating their high school. The uniform shall be a pinnie (similar to a thin T-shirt) worn over the lifejacket, or like colored lifejackets. To designate the high school, any combination of the high school’s name, nickname, mascot, or other identifying image shall be present on the back of the uniform and, except for an individual’s name or number, shall be the same for all team members competing. MASSA recommends that the image used to designate the high school be at least 8” X 8” in size.  
Penalty - A high school team whose student-athletes fail to wear uniforms for each race in a MASSA doublehanded championship regatta shall be penalized as described below, without a hearing, by the Regatta Chairperson (Changes RRS 63.1 & A5).  For a MASSA fleet racing championship regatta the team shall have 20 POINTS PER DIVISION added to their final regatta score.  For a MASSA team racing championship regatta the team shall have TWO WINS subtracted and TWO LOSSES added to their final regatta score.  The publication of this MASSA rule, 2/27/2011, provides advance written notice (as allowed by ISSA Official Procedural Rules, part1(c)) to MASSA schools, that may be competing in MASSA championship events, describing a minor modification to the ISSA Official Procedural Rules, section 2.2 "Lifejackets" in that this ISSA PR rule allows only a "thin T-shirt ... to prevent snagging of lines or equipment" to be worn over PFDs.  

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 accommodate at least 18 teams.

District Regattas: The Baker, Mallory, and Cressy Qualifiers for the respective national championships, and the fall District Fleet and Team Racing Championships will be 2 day events except as provided below.  MASSA Mallory Qualifiers and fall Fleet Racing Championships will end after 1 full round robin or no race will be started after 2PM on the second day, 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.  Each league director should make their best attempt to supply 2 qualified umpires for each team race championship to be approved by the MASSA Director of Sailing no less than 60 days prior to the event.

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 round is not completed during the Baker Qualifier, the event will be considered to be a valid regatta, and its results will be used for qualifying purposes for any team in a qualifying position if the team remains in a qualifying position after having its score adjusted  under the following two assumptions: (1) Assume the qualifying team loses all of its remaining, unsailed races, and (2) assume  that each of the other teams wins each of its remaining, unsailed races. The “remaining, unsailed races” will include only those races necessary to complete a single full round in which each team has sailed each of the other teams once.  If ties result, normal tie breaking procedures will be used. If any qualifying position cannot be determined based on these assumptions, then the result of the Fall Team Race Championship will be used.” 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.  

If a fall regatta is used as a backup qualifier for a national championship, then any teams that had sailors under 9th grade sailing in that event would not be qualified to participate in that national championship.

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.
 
 In accordance with the decisions at the 2007-8 and 2008-9 MASSA meetings: 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. Similarly, 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 Fleet or Team Racing Regatta to give the District sufficient time to calculate allocation numbers by the weekend before that District 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 Fleet or Team Racing Regatta. If the District holds a semifinal preliminary regatta to select teams to attend a final District Fleet or Team Racing Regatta, the allocation system will apply only to the semifinal preliminary regatta. For the purposes of allocations, an "active" fleet racing team means a team that actually races in at least one fleet racing regatta during this season, and an "active" team racing team means a team that actually races in at least one team racing regatta during this season.  

For Great Oaks allocations: District teams to attend the Great Oaks would be those on a list prepared by the MASSA Director from the results of the fall MASSA District Fleet Racing Championship of Great Oaks-eligible schools, i.e. those which have been members but had not qualified for any national championships in the past 4 years – or 1^st year members and the teams may include 8^th graders.

Calculations: The initial league allocations are calculated by multiplying the number of teams that can attend a given event by the number of active teams in that league divided by the total number of active teams in the district.  In accordance with the decision at the 2004 MASSA winter board 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. The 2010 MASSA winter board meeting decided that the allocation calculation number decimals will be averaged up so that, for example, a boat quota of 4.234 will count as a 5 boat quota. However, 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 teams with the highest decimals until no boats are left. For example, if the calculation numbers for a 20 boat regatta were NW = 3.643, NE = 3.430, East = 4.441, Central = 4.922, & South = 3.442, then the averaging up would result in the final allocation of the 4 extra boats: NW = 4, NE = 3, East = 4, Central = 5, & South = 4, 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.

Board of Directors elections:  As specified in the by-laws, the election of officers and other members of the Board of Directors (except for League Directors, who are elected by their leagues) shall be held at the Annual Meeting of the Board of Directors (which is held in December or January).  The 2009 Annual Meeting passed an addition to this that provided that a nominating committee be formed of 1 person appointed by each league and 1 person appointed by the current district director. The nominating committee will notify the BOD and Officers of its nominations prior to next year’s BOD winter annual meeting.  Board members remain free to make nominations to be considered at the winter meeting.