Patterson,
I am way behind the action here, but I keep an eye on Sailwave. It appears the group is working on problems that I put much time to a few years back. I was not aware of the tools in Sailwave at the time, and now my 50 -60 -70 -80 hour a week dangerous job is distracting me.
Sounds like you are trying to come up with a safe solution in Race Scoring to allow High Speed Catarmaran Ferries to interact safely with our atmospherically propelled vessels. This is very admirable. To the rest of the world, if I am correct at my guess, you are an Officer of the Club opposite Breakfast Creek, hopefully most of the Sailing Planet knows of that Pub. The main reference would have to be in a song of our new Envoironment Minister, Peter Garrett ( Power and the Passion.) Google Earth It, you all. Ben-Bob, Miller - Lexcen used to Sail around that corner in 1959 on his way to his starts where the boats are Two Foot longer than Patterson’s.
Patterson's problem, is that he has these 100 foot x 40 foot 1200 Horse Power, twin Scania V8 Rafts, (That is a more advanced version of " Kon-Tiki"), coming around the blind corner of his start-line at 30 Knots. Very Thrilling.. I only had to deal with them half a km down the river. They carry about 200 Humans and I think we now have about 14 of the gadgets in town. There have already been collisions....
My Club has longer boats, but still how do we resolve these problems of Commercial Traffic v. Air Powered vessels.????
Can Sailwave come up with a Stop Start Procedure of a Handicap equivelent for Racing in Congested Waterways?? Now that is the question.
Patterson, I am way behind here, but I hope this helps your case. Say Gidday to Anne for me.
Regards,
MWJ.
There is a requirement in offshore races to the the ability of an Elapsed Time penalty.
- OCS boats are normally given an elapsed time penalty of +30/60 minutes instead for example finishers +1.
- Boats failing to check-in receive a elapsed time penalty as well.
- In one case a boat that stopped to aid another competitor was given a 60 minute reduction in elapsed time.
If sailwave had a generalized scoring code feature, which enabled you to add or subtract time from a boats elapsed or corrected time it would solve both the long distance problem as well as the problem giving way to traffic.
For example
OCS +60 minutes elapsed
Check-In Failure +30 minutes
Part 2 Breach +? minutes
Mark Townsend s_mark_townsend@hotmail.com
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To: sailwave@yahoogroups.com
From: markcoorparoo@aol.com
Date: Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:23:22 -0500
Subject: Re: [sailwave] Time Deduction from elapsed time
Patterson,
I am way behind the action here, but I keep an eye on Sailwave. It appears the group is working on problems that I put much time to a few years back. I was not aware of the tools in Sailwave at the time, and now my 50 -60 -70 -80 hour a week dangerous job is distracting me.
Sounds like you are trying to come up with a safe solution in Race Scoring to allow High Speed Catarmaran Ferries to interact safely with our atmospherically propelled vessels. This is very admirable. To the rest of the world, if I am correct at my guess, you are an Officer of the Club opposite Breakfast Creek, hopefully most of the Sailing Planet knows of that Pub. The main reference would have to be in a song of our new Envoironment Minister, Peter Garrett ( Power and the Passion.) Google Earth It, you all. Ben-Bob, Miller - Lexcen used to Sail around that corner in 1959 on his way to his starts where the boats are Two Foot longer than Patterson’s.
Patterson's problem, is that he has these 100 foot x 40 foot 1200 Horse Power, twin Scania V8 Rafts, (That is a more advanced version of " Kon-Tiki"), coming around the blind corner of his start-line at 30 Knots. Very Thrilling.. I only had to deal with them half a km down the river. They carry about 200 Humans and I think we now have about 14 of the gadgets in town. There have already been collisions....
My Club has longer boats, but still how do we resolve these problems of Commercial Traffic v. Air Powered vessels.????
Can Sailwave come up with a Stop Start Procedure of a Handicap equivelent for Racing in Congested Waterways?? Now that is the question.
Patterson, I am way behind here, but I hope this helps your case. Say Gidday to Anne for me.
Regards,
MWJ.
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