A few other newbies are jumping on the
I wont do any 360
bandwagon as well. Tacticat 360s work on a honor system, not every sailor does them.
Actually, I meant on the water. But, I agree with you. He, and some others, seem to be getting better in the last few days. Due to the huge amount of *noodle* they caught! <img src=
alt=
/>
And online, you never see Jake caught up in this stuff. 'Course he's usually so far ahead no one has time to screw with him! <img src=
alt=
/>
I thought the program stopped the 'offender' as soon as the foul is committed (the rules engine determines the offender). Maybe it would also post a protest flag (like the OCS flat) on the offending boat until the 360 is cleared?
Another good thing about the program... it's the ultimate One Design fleet...
Another good thing about the program... it's the ultimate One Design fleet...
I like it! <img src=
alt=
/>
Sorry... but not true... these black boats full carbon... 3% more top speed, 3% more acceleration <img src=
alt=
/>
why do the 'carbon' boats immediately stop when you tack and try to duck them?
Because they are too scared of collision damaging their nice carbon fiber finished boats! <img src=
alt=
/>
How about this one then;
I'm the outside boat on port jibe (no I'm not jibing Mary). I need to jibe to Stbd to lay the finish line but the inside boat has control and will take me as far south as is necessary to put me clear astern after the jibe but, before we get to that position, he faints a jibe and me being anxious to jibe on top of him, I push 'enter'. Because he hasn't actually jibed, I hit him and another 360 is in me.
Good trick I thought, (after I said @#$%&* that is).
Berny,
Given that situation you can either sheet out to slow down or head up a little to give yourself room to jibe. You are pretty much beat at that point anyway and you're better off to just stay clean and pray the other guy makes some mistake (like overstand).
Sail your game, do what makes sense to you and let everyone else make the mistakes...that's my motto (taught to me by Mr. Nigel Pitt). I've not been able to apply it terribly well on the real water yet though. <img src=
alt=
/>
Mate I agree with your general philosophy but the teenager in me says;
go on, go on, do it, doooooiiiit
and sadly, sometimes, even at my age, I still listen. <img src=
alt=
/>
By the way, even if he overstands, I'm still going to be line astern after the jibe so that doesn't help. I did think of the 'sheet out' possibility and I will try that next time.
And while I think the situation is dire, I don't think it's game over. If you can jibe first and put the other bloke in your wind shadow, you're still in it with a chance.
I don't know if it's just me or my puter or if it's only unique to Australia maybe, but some days, like today, the site is just un-playable. The boat jumps all over the place, and even if that's not happening it either steers very quickly, or very slowly or it's slow to respond to commands and I mostly have little control. Bloody frustrating.
Sheeting out when going broad-reach has little effect on boad speed.
It's happened at some time or other to everybody. It's a problem of network latency. Today we do have only one server. It's located in Austin or Atlanta (USA).
Every time you give a command your computer sends it to the server and it sends back the new boat parms.
Latency is normally 0.1 sec or less. But sometimes it degrades to 1 sec or more. When info between your computer and the server takes more than 0.25 sec you have jumps.
Latency is due to network problems (congestion, transmit errors...) and are usually related with:
*Your computer (you have other programs running network hungry). Standard procedure: computer re-start.
*Your Access connection (shared with others in your lan or in you cable or DSL zone)
*Transpacific congestion
*Server problems (those affecting everybody). Starting procedure restart the server.
All in all a un-solvable problem affecting all internet on-line applications. Most of times nothing can be done and its time for a beer (or go real sailing).
Amando.
Thanks Amando, I suspected it might be something like that. I do have cable and a decent puter so I guess I'm stuck with it. I think I need to chill a little, it's only a boat race.
SACRILEGE!! <img src=
alt=
/>