Hey All you Wave racers out there.
FYI Division 11 is inviting Waves to their Spray Beach regatta!!! August 28 and 29. 2010
I spoke with the event organizes yesterday, they have 5 registered!!!
I'll be making the trip, hope to see some of you all there!
Hey Rick, el all,
RE: The race course at PIB was far more competitive than the old fashion triangle. The reach is a blast!
If one was to describe the mark set up to a chase boat how would you explain it?
Thanks
Mimi
Hi Mimi,
Actually, they screwed it up. Despite my giving them a diagram and exactly how to set the marks, they still managed to give us two downwind legs.
Luckily, with the wind we had the downwinds were still exciting. Otherwise they would not have been.
The class calls for the reaching mark to be 125% of the weather leg distance, out on a beam reach, either from the weather mark or the leeward mark. This allows for two pretty hot reaches. So you have two weather legs, two reaching legs, and only one downwind leg -- perfect for the Wave.
They set the mark at closer to 25%
Next year my brother-in-law, Dick BLiss, is opting to be on the mark boat to get it right.
The best course is to have the deepest reach first, and the beam reach second
Rick
Thanks for the scoop. Now if I can just get it the hang of it. I've been setting a shorter weather mark at our Thur. nite Fleet races, for the
little boats
. the more people I can get into it, the more worth while all the extra effort!