Stupid idea for series format?

Due to an organisation problem we ended up with a dreadfully light turnout at an open yesterday, but oddly, with what turned out to be 4 closely matched boats, it turned out to be entertaining to watch, and I hope to compete in, and with boats all finishing close we could turn round races quickly and got 6 races in a day.

This idea is probably impractical due to the amount of on the water organisation required, but I thought, what about a league? One lap races at 5 minute intervals, 5 boats per start and the boats seeded in known pecking order. Last boat in each race is demoted to next start, winner is promoted. Prizes for most wins and most promotions perhaps.

Given good enough organisation and separate start and finish boats you could probably be setting starts off continuously because the league 1 start only needs to wait for league 2 to finish, not everyone.

Could even be done with a mixed fleet I suppose, start the leagues in handicap order and prizes for most promotions or something, although tricky to know what to do if the best sailor has the fastest boat.


Edited by JimC - 13 Apr 14 at 8:05am

Hi Jim
Sounds a bit like the way they do Model boat racing.
I think much better with all one class than mixed fleet.
Cheers
Gordon