Race Management: Organizing a Pursuit Race

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Organizing a Pursuit Race

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Topic: Organizing a Pursuit Race

Posted By: tonyw3026
Subject: Organizing a Pursuit Race
Date Posted: 08 Sep 06 at 4:58am

I now live in Canada where pursuit races are almost unheard of. I remember they were a lot of fun in the UK but I cannot remember some of the details on how to organize one. I read the thread on timing a pursuit race but how do you calculate the start times and how do you finish it exactly on the hour? We normally use shore based starts and finishes but I assume you need a committee boat to finish and how do you finish if some boats are beating? Do you need more than one boat to record all the finishing positions if the boats are spread out?

Any comments would be helpful

Thanks

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Posted By: JimC
Date Posted: 08 Sep 06 at 9:10am

The usual thingis to blow a big gun on the time limit and, if the leaders are on a beat, set up a temporary line as close in font of them as practical. A committee boat starting at each mark finishers are approaching and gong back down the track is good for recording the rest of the places. Here's our club SIs.

http://surreycommunity.info/islandbarn/assets/documents/sail instrpursuit/

Posted By: Scooby_simon
Date Posted: 08 Sep 06 at 9:44am

Originally posted by JimC

The usual thingis to blow a big gun on the time limit and, if the leaders are on a beat, set up a temporary line as close in font of them as practical. A committee boat starting at each mark finishers are approaching and gong back down the track is good for recording the rest of the places. Here's our club SIs.

http://surreycommunity.info/islandbarn/assets/documents/sail instrpursuit/

You should be able to find standard times for this on the web somewhere I would hope. Basically you decide how long the race would be (say 100 or 200) minutes and then work out at what point each boat should start to (in theory) finish at the same time.

So 100 minute race. to finish at 13:40.

Boat with a handicap of 1000 starts at midday, a boat with a handicap of 900 starts later as it's faster, boat of handicap 1100 starts before midday as it is slower.

Simple Excel spreadsheet would be able to calc the appropiate start times.

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Posted By: Phat Bouy
Date Posted: 02 Oct 06 at 3:48am

Originally posted by tonyw3026

I now live in Canada where pursuit races are almost unheard of. I remember they were a lot of fun in the UK but I cannot remember some of the details on how to organize one.

Go here http://homepages.rya-online.net/dorchester/ then from the menu on the left side, click on "Racing" and a drop-down menu will appear. At the bottom is an excel version of the RYA's Pursuit Calculator.

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