[gpsbug] Updated Website - revised rating
- From: "Wandling, John" <jwandling@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'gpsbug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <gpsbug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:56:21 -0400
Folks,
Please take a look at www.wandling.net/whiteshoal
<http://www.wandling.net/whiteshoal> sometime before next week's race. Has
starting times revised for Recovery. Based on a rating change from 232 to
237. I increased her rating a bit because I missed the roller furler and
the old sail allowance. This should provide an interesting boat-for-boat
race between her and Lady J, which also is rated 237. There is no change in
overall standings caused by this change. Since we now have a couple of
boats rated the same, though, and more boats, some reminders on starting
line etiquette:
1. A boat who is not starting should stay clear of a boat trying to
start. In our type of race, this means that you should keep clear of a boat
who is starting ahead of you, even if it is only a few seconds.
2. If your starting times are the same, remember that starboard tack
boats have rights....and so do leeward boats., and so do boats that are
being overtaken.
3. After the start, you must be sailing a "proper course" to the next
mark. This is usually not the rhumbline...there is quite a bit of latitude
to accommodate tactics and the fact that boats may perform differently on
different points of sail. If you are to leeward and someone is trying to
pass, you can come up a bit to discourage them, for example, but it is not
considered good to "luff" so agressively that you endanger the situation, or
(as is more likely) both of you get way off the course. If I am being
luffed agressively, I will try to find a path to leeward of the person
luffing me.
Have fun. See ya on the water.
John
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