SNT Sailjuice

Originally posted by Hector Originally posted by Simon Lovesey <div style="color: rgb34, 34, 34; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">This year the clubs have found results a challenge,  mainly on lap counting and the bigger fleets.  There doesn't seem to be a standard way of recording,  each club does it differently,  we are looking at standardisation going forward.<div style="color: rgb34, 34, 34; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;"><div style="color: rgb34, 34, 34; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">Still waiting on results Woaa. BRASS MONKEY @ Yorkshire Dales results were availiable at the venue within an hour of last finisher, and sent to Sailjiuce / Sailracer within a couple of hours (would have been immediately if we had any Internet connection at the club).

To be fair, our results were slow to come through the year before - mostly for the reasons Simon described. We put a huge effort in this year to make sure that wasn't repeated.
Well done to Northampton fir what sounds another successful event - not least in terms of the charity perspective and in memory of Steve.

You haven't shaved that beard have you?

It was never going to be easy for the club ....

There is an argument that says good old-fashioned 'all-in' pursuit format would be a better one given the vargaries of wind and numbers involved.  At least the 'excitement' (and confusion plus collisions !) of very short beats and very large numbers on the line at any one time would be much reduced.

 A 'tour' of the whole water would help introduce more separation as well.   The Bloody Mary works very well (IF you exclude the local 'joys of launching and parking ) and allows a very large number of entries in a way that a 'regular' format cannot...  There are other very good pursuit examples as well and as a by-product they tend to be better for spectators.   You really can follow the racing and who is near the front .... and it builds to a watchable finish.

Lastly - Slower classes are not 'buried' in starts as some can be in 'mass' starts and then have to sail in churned wind for long periods.    I'd also argue that while there is no easy format for hard pressed RO's and results coordinators but pursuits are a tad 'easier' allround.

After all this is winter event muti-class handicap racing !  Perhaps KISS should be the order of the day.

Mike L.


Edited by blaze720 - 26 Jan 15 at 2:02pm

Simon, the last phantom, 1034, was sailing with a tin rig.  Is there any way we can get hold of the data so we could cluck ste his place according to our local handicap for older phantoms?  Just for curiosity's sake?