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All yours. See everyone at 83A.

Eunice

Pursuit start times requires calculation based on distance.

Cheers,

Doug

I will take a shot at amending the entire SI.

Can we just use the Miles River excel sheet since both starts are 1030?

Also, do we need boats to announce when they will start 10 mins prior? There are so few boats, we will know when each is starting. Saturday mornings on Ch 68 tend to be busy with fishermen and I would like to keep radio chatter to a minimum.

I will delete the zoom meeting.

Mark,

A quick review of the West River Race SIs reveals numerous errors and inconsistencies.

1. All of the skippers' meeting info is out of date. So is the July 25 date for posting amendments.

2. The finish line description is incorrect. PCRC Mark "X" is off the Rhode River, not across from the Pirate's Cove racing platform. Also if no RC is on station, why require finishing boats to sail within 100 feet of the PCRC starting pin instead of finishing when their hull crosses the line between the pin and the PCRC racing platform flag pole? It is a long start/finish line.

3. The scoring section says it will be ToT, but a pursuit race is normally ToD.

Did anyone review these SIs?

I make the following suggestion. We should calculate start times for two course lengths. One from Can 83A to the PCRC racing platform and a shorter course from Can 83A to West River Green 1A. Knowing the variability of wind in late August, a RC (or the racers if no RC) could select the more applicable course prior to the start. I'm not sure how the Wye River race was shortened after the start, making all of the handicaps invalid?

Ted

Hi Eunice

We used the pursuit format for the Race to Miles River. We wrote up the SI’s to allow for no RC boat initially. We wrote an addendum to allow for one at the start and we took out Cooinda. We stayed on station to essentially answer questions about start times and set up a starting line with 83A. Suhr la Mer was the finish boat and we made the call to shorten as we motored to Shaw Bay.

For West River, you can do something similar. We will have the start times available next week.

If you want to hang out at 83A for the starts, you can then head up to West River and take finish times. If you decide to delay, everyone’s start time iis delayed by that much.

As RC, you make the call to shorten.

Cheers

Mark

I'm signed up to be RC and am willing to do it, but I recommend that we also handle the start.

If RC is not needed at the start, then racers will need to take their own times at the finish because we may want to race.

Does the West River Race need an RC boat? Not sure why the format changed but usually there is an RC boat to start a pursuit Race. The past two years we've raised the AP flag due to light wind. (Last year we postponed until 1230.) Now there won't be anyone there to decide whether the conditions are OK to get a race started on time. Or answer questions. There ALWAYS are questions.

The SI assumes a finish at Pirate's Cove. The last two years we shortened the course to WR G1A. Who will handle that decision, or will there be an amendment as there was in 2023?

Eunice