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From: David.Spragg@ait.co.uk
Date: Wed 17 Feb 1999 - 10:27:45 GMT
Not sure whether I should admit to having sailed 505's, but here goes:
The 505s not only have a 7-day, 7-race series, they also hold a pre-worlds
over the previous week, which is normally also the national championship of
the host country. In Hyannis last year, we had a 5-day, 7-race pre-worlds,
one (I think) measurement day and then a 7-day worlds. The pre-worlds have a
practice race, but the worlds proper do not, which is fair enough. The 505s
also use gate starts, which result in less recalls (typically 1-2 per day)
but much more carnage (for instance, one boat was towed home backwards from
the practice race minus its bow, and didn't go sailing for the rest of the
regatta)
In terms of shorter regattas, my personal feeling is that I probably
wouldn't want to fork out too much money to ship myself and a boat half way
round the world to do a 4-day regatta. I do the worlds because I enjoy the
sailing, not because I think I've got a chance of winning, so a minimalist
regatta with less days' sailing has less appeal. There's also something nice
about knowing you can drink silly amounts of beer and go to bed late,
because the start is at 2.30. As far as I'm concerned the current format
seems pretty good.
Dave
-----Original Message-----
From: Gregory J. Mitchell [mailto:grmitche@cisco.com]
Sent: 16 February 1999 18:02
To: 14list@lanminds.com
Subject: Re: A shorter worlds format
<p>All,
I personally liked the 1 race a day, long race course used at Richmond quite
a bit. And 7 races over 8 days was great.
However, it seems to me that it worked because of the consistent conditions
we had. Here in San Francisco, we are blessed with an afternoon seabreeze
that only varies in intensity - not really direction or timing, throughout
the whole of our summer. And - I'm a local, so travel time was
non-existent.
For other venues - I think the best course is to give the local race mgmt
team broad guidelines (7 races, x throwouts, y minimum length of course,
reaching legs, etc) and let them determine how to best apply them. In
Melbourne, if we had said - ok guys - you have 4 days to run 7 races, which
is what I think is the direction the conversation is turning, some races
would have been held in less than 5 knots, and some in greater than 25+. On
the same day we could've seen one of each.
Anyone know what the 505's, and other large dinghy fleets do?
Personally - I'm of the opinion that our current format is pretty good - and
it will take some real convincing to change that opinion.
Greg
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