Jim -
My personal preferences below:
> 1. Scheduling
>
> We need to provide input on how to divide up the 21 days. For example, 3
> series of 5 weeks (15), and one series of 6 weeks; or, 4 series
> of 5 weeks,
> and one-one day regatta during the summer etc.
I prefer the max number of Thurs nights over a one day.
> What time do we want the races to start? Is 6:00 PM O.K.? One other
> possibility is to start at 5:30 PM in the April and Sept. series=92.
6:00 remains the best start time for me - just can't get there sooner most of time
> What about the starting sequence of classes? The Race Committee
> has offered
> a =93practice start=94 to us (Lasers) if we get out to the course by 6:00.
Why can't it be a real start? I don't think there is anything in the Race Book that fixes the starting order. At 6:00 the RC should be able to start any class at their discretion.
> 2. Scoring
>
> The proposal is to score all races individually (as we have
> been), but drop a percentage (i.e. 20%) of the worst races
> to determine an overall score.
> With 4 races per night in a four race series (16 races), a 20%
> drop would be 3 races. This seems reasonable to me.
> What do you think?
I like this proposal.
> 3. On course Issues:
>
> a) Should the start/finish lines be restricted? Should this be
> left to the discretion of the race committee?
RC discretion
> b) Are the number and the duration of races during an evening acceptable?
> The race committee wants feed back so they can give us what we want. Box
> courses?, gybe marks?, mix it up?
I liked the mix this year - but - there were a lot of very late course changes.
> c) What, if anything, can be done about a boat finishing very far behind
the
> rest of the fleet? Waiting could reduce the number of races in an
evening.
> Is this an issue with us?
This is an issue in the Tasar fleet which does affect the number of Laser starts. Should we try very short time limits after the first finisher? A loud signal for first to finish for each fleet would help self enforce this.
> d) When sailing out to the course, please check in with the
> committee boat.
> If you are leaving the course prior to finishing the last race, inform the
> committee boat. This makes scoring much easier, and is an
> important safety consideration.
We should find a way to promote this basic courtesy and safety issue. Good place to start is with us regulars doing this consistantly. I certainly could be more conscientious of this.
Jim Lyle
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Received on Thu Sep 30 08:59:30 1999