The first race of the Fall 2011 season will start at 12:00 on
Sunday, 25 September.
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Subject: [gpsbug] Re: WSSC Fall 2011 ad Hoc Race Series
Lots of good ideas.Im up for anything to enhance participation. I'm
generally incommunicado here in ME. Let's plan on racing next
Sunday with a 1200 start.
Thanks,
Steve
On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 10:00 AM, John wrote:
Maybe we should try to do fewer races but treat them a bit more
seriously:
(1) Schedule a spring series and a fall series (five races each).
(2) Have races on Sunday, starting around eleven.
(3) Vary courses a bit. - pick more gov't marks and establish a
few predefined courses.
(4) Move Starting area to middle of river.
(5) Have a committee boat - take turns volunteering - committee
boat gets one point for that day
(6) Score as a series and have awards use low point scoring as
per Racing Rules of Sailing
(7) Charge a nominal fee to cover awards
(8) Allow one throw-out (awards based on best four finishes)
(9) Let's keep Pagan River Challenge with WYCC as co-sponsor (if
WYCC is game).
I'd be happy to conduct a review of racing rules as well as a
review of how to committee. Will continue as scorekeeper/
webmaster. If we set this up and schedule around other
activities, I could get my boat up the river for most races.
I'd be happy to host a meeting of volunteers who would like to
work on "taking it up a notch".
Please share opinions/thoughts. I'd be happy to host a meeting of
volunteers who would like to work on "taking it up a notch".
John
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Subject: [gpsbug] WSSC Fall 2011 ad Hoc Race Series
Fall is upon us so let's go racing!
For the Fall we'd like to do whatever we can to maximize the
number of racers. The Spring Series had generated a lot of advance
interest and optimism, but in the event, disappointingly, we
didn't see many boats on the line. In part, probably a case of
life happening as we went about our plans.
What can be done to maximize the number of boats on the starting
line? Different start times? Different days? Other locations for
the start? Some racing/ racing rules familiarization? What can be
done to enable you to race?
Anyone, everyone please chime in. What works for you?
As a minimum, please feed back whether you'd prefer to race on
Saturday or Sunday and AM or PM.
Also, please provide any other germane feedback so we can include
as many boats as possible. We just go out to have fun on the water!
No protests!
Let's plan to start racing the last weekend in September and
finish up before Thanksgiving. (Please pass this along to anyone
else who might be interested in racing.)
Thanks,
Steve
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