Dinghy development: Optimum big up.

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Optimum big up.

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Topic: Optimum big up.

Posted By: iGRF
Subject: Optimum big up.
Date Posted: 15 Mar 16 at 4:52pm

Nothing worse at the pin end the minute gun has gone you are untangling a couple of Feva space cadets using your rigging to hog the pin end and you check your watch to see it fade completely as the cold gets to the battery..

I sent it off yesterday, got the call today to say it's on its way back battery refreshed.

Service like that is worth a mention i've got nothing but good things to say about Optimum time, this is the second time it's happened and it was just as slick last go round.

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Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 15 Mar 16 at 7:30pm

Nice to hear. Mine was borrowed by offspring and dropped in the lake before it got the chance for the battery to run low.

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Posted By: 423zero
Date Posted: 15 Mar 16 at 8:19pm

I have had same battery for 3 years, (probably flat now I have said that).

Good to hear about their after market service.

I did not know what to expect from this thread, when I saw "Title" and who had written it.

Posted By: iiiiticki
Date Posted: 15 Mar 16 at 8:57pm

Because my performance is so poor split second start timing makes little difference. Because of this I wear a cheap analog watch waterproof to 50m. I just look at the sweep second hand when the bell goes and remember it. 20 sec after the hour or whatever. The advantage is that I wear the same watch all the time and never take it off (except for weddings or funerals when I wear my fake Rolex). My present watch is a Casio all black resin thing waterproof to 100m. which cost about 18 quid I think. Battery goes then I bin them and get another one.

Posted By: Rupert
Date Posted: 15 Mar 16 at 9:49pm

I always used to similar with a digital watch. My starts haven't improved since I got another count down watch, but my brain hurts less trying to figure out how long I have left, especially when the start sequence crosses the top of the hour.

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Posted By: realnutter
Date Posted: 15 Mar 16 at 10:20pm

I have a cheap countdown watch which is fine but... the first warning always seems to happen when I'm mid tack, so I miss it by a few seconds.... And my club has a pursuit fetish, and I can never work out which horn is my start!!

It'll be easier once I have the Frosty finished.... my start in a pursuit will always be the first one!

Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 15 Mar 16 at 10:28pm

Originally posted by realnutter

and I can never work out which horn is my start!!

Do you not have a countdown board of some sort? We just have a set of large numbers, 1-9 and 0-2, painted on hardboard, and hold up the two numbers for the current start number from approximately 20 secs before the gun to about 10 secs after.

Posted By: getafix
Date Posted: 15 Mar 16 at 10:33pm

Waterproof stop watch from eBay, Velcro . You can get the lot with change from £6.

Saves a fortune you can put into other boaty "essentials" and you can wear a normal size watch.

Good customer service is always worth talking about. If you'd moan when it's crap, celebrate when it's great.

Posted By: realnutter
Date Posted: 15 Mar 16 at 10:40pm

Originally posted by JimC

Do you not have a countdown board of some sort?

Yeah, I just need more practice... I get away eventually, just never bang on time...

Posted By: iGRF
Date Posted: 16 Mar 16 at 9:38am

In the days when these things used to matter and I gave tactical talks on the subject, I used to point out that in a hundred strong start line you can lose potentially 99 places in the first second delay. Now stop for a second at windward mark you might not even lose one place.
I even went to the lengths of working out the potential place loss that a second delay can count for in the first third of the beat as against the final third, according to the rule of thirds that breaks a fleet of sailing things up, but it was a long time ago now and things are quite different in these mixed boat fleets on small lakes, but I still cannot go to a start line without a functioning countdown time piece or I'd have a nervous breakdown.

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