RS 300 Slaloms

On the day we started with reach-to-reach gybes between the two lines of buoys downwind but that was also a bit much so we reverted to the course as described in the article for the afternoon races. I think we'll stick with this for future events.

Downtime is something we thought hard about, hence the two courses. We had 10 entrants so the maximum amount of races you might have been hanging around for was 2 races. We used a 60 sec/30 sec start countdown so 10 minutes max to wait for your next start. You need some downtime anyway as it is completely knackering! We had to delay the occasional start if someone was scheduled to sail 2 races in a row. I think we could could cope with up to 16-18 boats with 2 courses, more than that and you might need three.

Interesting you mention changes in wind. We turned off rule 42 for the event so that it could still have taken place had there been no wind.

To be honest, there were less teething issues than I had thought there might me. We'll need to think again about how to split the racing into gold and silver fleets for the later stages of racing. However, one unexpected consequence is that several club members who were watching really want to have a go so it looks like we'll be putting on a club slalom event to be raced in club Toppers some time over the summer.