[J24 ListSrv] Fwd: [Fleets] Is There Any Appetite for Any of This?

[Holly Jo Anderson]

While this has little to do with race course ideas, this is the best year
ever to race on the weekend. 

 

There are a few J/24s that go out for the mid-distance Big Island races with
the kids. And they are having a great time. This solves the family
obligation issue - bring them along. Give your spouse a few hours without
the kids or bring the spouse too.

 

The biggest Sunday complaint is the waves and no wind. That's not been the
case this year. And we've had wind on Saturdays and Sunday. Last week, it
was about 15 to 20 on Sunday. This weekend it'll be 10 to 15. Did I mention
no waves. Get out and race on the weekends! 

 

Have a great rumble! 

 

 

 

From: j24-bounces at lists.wyc.org [mailto:j24-bounces at lists.wyc.org] On Behalf
Of Joshua Bone
Sent: Wednesday, July 16, 2014 11:53 AM
To: j24 at lists.wyc.org
Subject: Re: [J24 ListSrv] Fwd: [Fleets] Is There Any Appetite for Any of
This?

 

Fleet 1,

 

We already have mid-distance racing. Every week there is a Round the Island
Race (on Saturdays). People who like that should show up and do it.

 

Mid distance racing is great for PHRF as well as training new people in
One-Design boats.

 

Buoy racing is fun but the format is generally the same, although we did do
a LW2.5 a couple of times this year. Why not mix up Buoy racing? Put a start
line in the middle of the course, short first upwind leg, short reach leg,
long down, long up, long down, short beat to the finish, with this format
you could theoretically set 1 course for all of the fleet and then very the
number legs (less resources so it's cheaper to run). Or what about doing
downwind starts, just turn the course around.

 

Thursday is buoy racing and it draws the most boats; this is probably true
for all fleets. 

 

We went down this path to change things last year when people voted to make
the Rumble the Champ series. Comments were, oh that sounds great and it will
be fun to get a lot of racing in. Then guess what happened? Very few boats
showed up.

 

We have the same number of Thursday night races as we do Saturday Big Island
Races. We also have the Night Crawlers, Shackleton, Commodores Race and the
Burton Cup. We have 3 Rumbles. It would be good to understand why people
aren't showing up for the Big Island race before making a change to any of
our racing formats, same goes for the Rumbles. We are essentially a 50/50
split for Buoy vs. Mid-Distance.

 

Introducing more racing is a great idea. In Austin we would do a pursuit
race every Friday night. Each boat would have a specified start time, there
was no race committee. Boats started between the channel lights. You had to
round 3 marks and then sail back to the finish. Someone was appointed each
week to decide which marks to round. You could round them in any order. You
finished when you crossed the harbor channel and recorded your time. This
could easily be done in the bay using no wake buoys. The best part is that
it costs nothing to implement. 

 

2 cents.

 

 

Joshua Bone

 

 

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