[Sonar] A proposal for the short course regatta concept

[Mark Kochendorfer]

Sounds fine to me in theory.  Not sure how you will determine who will move
to which boat in order to facilitate learning.

Not sure what happens if there is damage when the owner is not on board.

Mark

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Ernest Brody <epbrody at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On Saturday at Charlie and Meghan’s (thank you very much for hosting) Bert
> introduced the idea of short course racing in the Bay for a fleet 2 or 3
> Sundays during the season.  These would be individually scored with their
> own trophies and not part of the Sunday Champ series.****
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> I propose that the Sonar fleet use this for crew trade-around.  We did
> this on Thursdays many years ago and it brought a lot of people’s skill
> level up a notch or two.****
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> The idea would be ****
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> **·        **One person who knows the boat, skipper or regular crew, is
> on each boat****
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> **·        **The other people for that day are a mixture from other boats*
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> **·        **The results from the races count for the boat regardless of
> who did what on the boat****
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> Benefits are****
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> **·        **People will trade knowledge and skills so newer sailors
> learn from more experienced sailors****
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> **·        **Skill levels all around will increase****
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> **·        **A boat which is often in the back of the fleet might win the
> day with more experienced sailors on board****
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> **·        **Fleet members will become better acquainted with each other**
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> What do you think?  We will need someone to herd the cats.****
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> Ernest****
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Mark
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