[gpsbug] Re: Updated Website - revised rating
- From: "john" <john@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <geochristian@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <jwandling@xxxxxxxxxxx>, <gpsbug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 20:21:24 -0400
Good question. I'll have to say it depends. Good lawyer answer, I know.
But it looks to me as if Alexis gives you about a minute nine, and you
should have been well clear before she started. I didn't catch the entire
action, though, but I had Alexis starting on time and you a little late.
From where I sat, it looked to me as if you could have come about and taken
off. I thought Alexis was to leeward of you and on Port tack, while you
were on Starboard. All things being equal, you could hail her and she would
have to maneuver. But you would have had to hold your course. I don't know
if you could have tacked quickly enough in the air we had yesterday, and if
you couldn't have made the tack it might have been a dangerous situation. I
think you handled it just fine.
-----Original Message-----
From: gpsbug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gpsbug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On
Behalf Of George Christian
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 7:24 PM
To: jwandling@xxxxxxxxxxx; gpsbug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: 'Jeffrey Schoenberg'
Subject: [gpsbug] Re: Updated Website - revised rating
Does that mean if a boat is late over the starting line that the next
boat has to wait until that boat crosses the line? All is fair in love
and war! I gave way to Alexis and let her pass ahead of me and then I
crossed the line on time.
-----Original Message-----
From: gpsbug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:gpsbug-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Wandling, John
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 12:56 PM
To: 'gpsbug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Cc: Jeffrey Schoenberg (j.schoenberg@xxxxxxxxxxx)
Subject: [gpsbug] Updated Website - revised rating
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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