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    Posted: 13 Jan 13 at 7:46pm
3 finish lines I think I noticed.
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4. Three marks had blue flags on them - they became finishing lines. Plus the moving line that got dropped ahead of the leading boat.
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We had a very long sail after the finish time all upwind.  I reckon 15-20 minutes worth.  We gained some, we lost some...I felt for the toppers who lost loads.

Have to laugh at the Tiger comments - it took 25 freexing minutes to drift down to the nest mark where the finish was - direction to hold station blatantly ignored (but understandably so given the conditions) by 4 29ers and a few others and not much interest in correcting it from the race team.

At least you know what ypu're getting at the BM!
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Originally posted by sargesail

We had a very long sail after the finish time all upwind.  I reckon 15-20 minutes worth.  We gained some, we lost some...I felt for the toppers who lost loads.

Have to laugh at the Tiger comments - it took 25 freexing minutes to drift down to the nest mark where the finish was - direction to hold station blatantly ignored (but understandably so given the conditions) by 4 29ers and a few others and not much interest in correcting it from the race team.

At least you know what ypu're getting at the BM!
 
I think my son finished just after you in his radial. He had the same agonising 15-20 minutes after the gun. He said 15 or so faster boats passed him in that time, which he was a but disappointed about, but didn't really affect his enjoyment in any way.
 
The bottom line is that the way the race is finished may mean there is a bit of a blur between 50th and 75th, but the winner is clear, as is the the first boat in each class.
 
At the end of the day, all handicap racing is a compromise and a but of fun anyway, so you just have to take the rough with the smooth. All in all it was a fantastic event, really well run.
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Originally posted by Cameron Winton

Car racing has had transponders for years. Sounds worthwhile for any regatta with 50 + boats. Difficult thing will be getting them all the same and cheap. Many squealed when they became mandatory for cars at £75 and that is a more expensive sport
 
They are a much simpler device than would be needed for sailboat races - you can't put induction loops a few inches below the surface across the start/finish line!
 
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hold station and sail to a frickin bouy 200m away..?!? don't work in reality if you're in a foiling moth (and not, at the moment of finishing gun, surrounded by other foiling moths) , what are you supposed to do, blast straight past everyone near you then jump off the back and bury it somewhere just short of the finish mark until you see your 'space' coming along, then quickly get it back upright and sail on????
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Originally posted by sargesail

We had a very long sail after the finish time all upwind.  I reckon 15-20 minutes worth.  We gained some, we lost some...I felt for the toppers who lost loads.

Have to laugh at the Tiger comments - it took 25 freexing minutes to drift down to the nest mark where the finish was - direction to hold station blatantly ignored (but understandably so given the conditions) by 4 29ers and a few others and not much interest in correcting it from the race team.

At least you know what ypu're getting at the BM!

I think I was with you in that group, yelling at 29ers to little avail. The I14 that didn't even go to the finish boat still seemed to get a finish position
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Can't say I yelled much - the movement would have shaken too much cold into my kit!

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Am i wrong in thinking that in the BM sailing instructions it states you are to keep racing until you reach the next finish point?  Obviously not standard persuit finishing practice, but it works.  It would be virtually impossible to finish everyone at the same time.  So i am afraid you just have to keep racing until the line.  Its worked for this many years why change it?  By the way i overtook some slower boats on the way to my finish point.

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Everyone keeps racing till the finish point at BM.  I only saw 2 finish points, however many they had they need more as 20 min sailing to get to one is too long and really disadvantages slow boats.
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