Not to be confrontational but I think pretty much all college sailing venues
could fit the digital N.? MIT is one of the narrowest venues in college sailing
and they have easily fit a digital N on the Charles at their summer team race.?
Also the Charles is very shifty but again it seems that the shift venues have
high quality RC's that are very good at moving marks.? Between Harvard, MIT,
and Tufts these are some of the fastest mark moving RC's you see in all of
sailing.? I have seen Ken move a whole course at full throttle while just
grabbing marks and dragging them.? I would guess that at these venues moving an
extra mark would take no more than 2 minutes even thought I bet they could do
it in under 50 seconds.
Look the legendary Marine Lake at West Kirby.? That venue is smaller than any
college venue at approximately 150 meters wide and they can't even fit the
digital N but they do it any ways and it works.? I would say any venue that is
250+ meters wide would easily work.? For example Upper Mystic lake is slightly
over 300 meters wide.
?The idea sound bad but when you actually look at the numbers I don't think
they are warranted as limiting factors.
(My distances are all approximations from map quest)
-----Original Message-----
From: Ken Legler <[email protected]>
To: Mitch Brindley <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Sent: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 7:27 pm
Subject: [ICSA] Re: rule change, N course, TR Worlds
?
Nicely done ICSA, Geoff Becker and our rules committee in particular.
This rule change is extremely easy to find being at the very end of our
Procedural Rules. It is also easy to follow when reading with your
rulebook open to rule 18.?
?
Regarding the digital N versus the college N course; it is worth
considering but it has its pros and cons.?
?
Pros:?
1. same as most other team race courses?
2. helps separate last beat from run leg?
3. adds another mark trap opportunity?
?
Cons:?
1. more work setting and changing for wind shifts in shifty venues?
2. some venues in certain wind directions are not wide enough to have
two good but separate and parallel windward legs, but most are?
?
The practice course that Colin suggests does work, is easy to set but,
does mix the windward and leeward legs together with multiple fleets.?
?
Finally, congrats to Colin/Amanda, Pete/Liz, Clay/Lisa for repeating
their win at team racing worlds. You have represented ICSA and your
former college teams well again despite great competition from down
under (and USA 2, GBR, etc.) Former ICSA sailors have now finished
first or second (or both) in every TR worlds since the inaugural event
in 1995. We look forward to hearing from you about how the young Aussie
and Kiwi teams approach the game.?
?
Ken Legler?
?
Mitch Brindley wrote:?
>
> Please find the link at www.collegesailing.org for the 2009-2012 Procedural?
> Rules. Everyone should review these, and if you are a hosting an event you?
> need to have a printed copy available.
>
> Also take note of the Class rule 7.5.1 on the last page. ICSA has chosen to?
> be proactive concerning the unintended consequences of RRS 18.2c. The?
> essence of the problem is that rule 18.2(c) turns off rule 18.2(b) when?
> either boat tacks. This allows a boat that is required to give mark-room?
> under rule 18.2(b) to get out of that obligation by crossing head to wind,?
> and then claim mark room under rule 18.2(a) from boats that are already at?
> the mark. In certain scenarios, this would have an outcome that runs counter?
> to the general concept of rule 18.2(b), which "locks in" mark-rounding?
> obligations early.
>
> It is the feeling of the majority of the US Sailing Racing Rules Committee?
> that ISAF will make a correction to the RRS latter this spring. The ICSA?
> executive committee did not want college sailing to have to accept what?
> could amount to a significant game change in mid-season. ICSA is?
> essentially "testing" an experimental rule prior to the expected?
> implementation.
>
> I do want to thank the ICSA Rules Committee and Chairman, Geoff Becker for?
> their efforts.?
>
>
> Mitchell Brindley?
> President, ICSA?
> 757.683.3387?
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> www.collegesailing.org?
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