[gpsbug] Skipper's Meeting
- From: "John" <j.wandling@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'Gpsbug@Freelists. Org '" <gpsbug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2007 08:22:30 -0500
Hi,
I know this is short notice, but I have been waiting to get some input from
GP on cruising schedule. Anyway, we need to get started on our racing
schedule for next year, so I would like to have as many of you (skippers,
mostly, but crew definitely welcome) to a meeting at my place on Wednesday
evening...at 7. Will probably go until nine. I'll have prepared a
tentative schedule to discuss, and we can finalize as best we can.
Points to ponder:
1. Lets go to a Sunday afternoon series. Seems to interfere least with
other weekend plans, and some of you guys already told me that wind is
better on Sundays than Saturdays.
2. I'd like to schedule the Pagan River Challenge (GPYC) to coincide with
the last day of cruise week (tentatively set for the week of the 4th of
July). I propose that those sailboats not taking part in cruise week can
meet those that are somewhere near the mouth of the James (Ft Monroe,
Willoughby, etc), and have a point-to-point race between there and the GPYC.
We'll make this a staggared start race so that all boats should be finishing
around the same time.
3. All boats should have PHRF ratings. If they don't, I will assign one,
but it will be based on the ratings of similar boats I can find on the
intranet. I will quit trying to account for cruising gear and/or crew
experience. PHRF is somewhat arbitrary, but at least you can argue with
them instead of with me, and it is based on the scientific notion that
people of similar skills should be able to produce similar results on
similar boats (that may be a social science!).
4. We will splilt the fleet into spinnaker and non-spinnaker divisions.
Will award trophies in each division in accordance with the following:
1st place - more than one but fewer than three boats in starting
area
2nd place - more than two but fewer than four boats in starting area
3rd place - more than three boats in starting area
(In other words, you have to beat someone!).
5. For the Spring Series, I'd like to go to a normal starting sequence.
(i.e. we all start together and I'll compute corrected times based on
handicap). If we have enough boats to take turns being committee, we will
also do signals, etc. as per the rulebook). Otherwise we will continue
honor system. (I think honor system is OK, but gets you less "real"
practice for starting in real races. ) I got in about four real races last
year and thouroughly screwed up the start in at least two of them (probalby
more if you ask my crew!).
6. I think having longer series with two throwouts worked well, so we might
just go for a longer Spring/Early Summer along with a Late Summer/Fall
Series of seven or eight races each.
Anyway, we can discuss all this at our meeting and attempt to deconflict as
much as we can with cruising schedule(s).
Hope most of you can make this.
Thanks.
John
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