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

[Sean Delaney]

Holly thanks for the reminder of our season of flat water, this is a very rare gift and you have inspired me. 

 Boomers and rain kept us away last Saturday but we will try again for Women's Cup. I was informed the J24's have a handsome traveller. 


Sean
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> On Jul 16, 2014, at 1:00 PM, Shawn Patterson <spatterson at resolutionmedical.com> wrote:
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> Great feedback again from everyone - thank you and its very much appreciated!   I will consolidate everything today - all great points.    
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> Also - Yes we could def use some more weekend J24's...Sat/Sun has had great wind and been a blast this year.   We decided to try to do most Sat/Sundays (even with the 3 and 5yr olds) and its been a great way to try new courses, get family and new crew out,  and create some backups for Thursdays.   
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> Reminder: The Womens Big Island Cup is this Saturday at 10am - please join if you can!  Note of Caution: Brynn, Abby, and/or my daughter Gia will be driving:)
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>> On Wed, Jul 16, 2014 at 12:21 PM, Holly Jo Anderson <holly at veritasmarketing.com> wrote:
>> While this has little to do with race course ideas, this is the best year ever to race on the weekend.
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>> 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.
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>> 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!
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>> Have a great rumble!
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>> 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
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>> Subject: Re: [J24 ListSrv] Fwd: [Fleets] Is There Any Appetite for Any of This?
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>> 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.
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>> Mid distance racing is great for PHRF as well as training new people in One-Design boats.
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>> 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.
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>> Thursday is buoy racing and it draws the most boats; this is probably true for all fleets. 
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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>> 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. 
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