Taking AverageLap Mountain By Strategy

   The main thing is to have plenty of short laps: you really want the fast boats to be doing at least five. 

The second thing is for the RC to be vey careful about where they divide the fleet: this is difficult, but I can usually manage to avoid splitting the leaders in the bigger classes.

Whether your sailing back idea is permitted would depend on SIs... Our SIs state "Once the first boat is finished then all boats will finish as they next complete a lap." which prohibits such activity. 

 I do remember how long it took to explain to someone how it could be that while they were first in the extracted Laser Class results they were 2nd Laser in the handicap results... 

I'm amazed it happened twice in a weekend unless they were setting long courses and very few laps.

Author	Message Share Topic Printable Version Delicious Digg Facebook Furl Google MySpace Newsvine reddit StumbleUpon Translate Twitter Windows Live Yahoo Bookmarks Topic Search Topic Options Post Reply Create New Topic
JimC Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 17 May 04 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 6662	Post Options Post Reply Quote JimC Report Post Quote Reply Topic: Taking AverageLap Mountain By Strategy Posted: 26 Jan 11 at 1:06pm
	The main thing is to have plenty of short laps: you really want the fast boats to be doing at least five. The second thing is for the RC to be vey careful about where they divide the fleet: this is difficult, but I can usually manage to avoid splitting the leaders in the bigger classes. Whether your sailing back idea is permitted would depend on SIs... Our SIs state "Once the first boat is finished then all boats will finish as they next complete a lap." which prohibits such activity. I do remember how long it took to explain to someone how it could be that while they were first in the extracted Laser Class results they were 2nd Laser in the handicap results... I'm amazed it happened twice in a weekend unless they were setting long courses and very few laps.

chrisg Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 23 Mar 07 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 893	Post Options Post Reply Quote chrisg Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 26 Jan 11 at 1:04pm
	I'd be interested to hear peoples views on this too. Many people at my club seem to think average lap racing is the way forward. They say its the "fairest" type of racing as everyone sails in the same conditions for the same amount of time. While I acknoweldge that that is true, instances such as the one you mention above, infers to me that it isnt quite as fair as would seem at first glance....

Strangler Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Posting king Joined: 24 Mar 06 Location: United Kingdom Online Status: Offline Posts: 154	Post Options Post Reply Quote Strangler Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 26 Jan 11 at 12:40pm
	Big anomalies can occur with the average lap system when the finish line is invoked and a change in wind strength occurs. Some [leading] boats will have gone through the line and have [lets say] to content with a dying wind. This happened to me in two of three races of a club weekend handicap event I was leading Laser in both races but finished 4^th Laser in both! My rules question is – say you have not long gone through the gate/finish line when the finish is invoked. Can you go back and recross the line? [No race length specified so cannot do a tactical slow down.] You would no doubt have to explain to the scorer what you did.