[Sonar] A proposal for the short course regatta concept

[Bert Foster]

Hi all,

 

I think Mark's idea here is wonderful. Let's put Mark in charge of organizing it.

 

By the way, we're planning on three Sundays for these one day regattas, one in June, one in July, one in August. Maybe the fleet could have a sign-up online so that people who plan to attend and willing to have other people's crew could so indicate, as well as people who plan not to attend, but to go to grandma's cabin. Maybe Mark could get some help from some of the genius geeks in the fleet to design, create the web.

 

Regards,

Bert

 

From: sonar-bounces at lists.wyc.org [mailto:sonar-bounces at lists.wyc.org] On Behalf Of Mark Kochendorfer
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2012 8:57 PM
To: sonar
Subject: Re: [Sonar] A proposal for the short course regatta concept

 

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.

 

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.

 

The idea would be 

·        One person who knows the boat, skipper or regular crew, is on each boat

·        The other people for that day are a mixture from other boats

·        The results from the races count for the boat regardless of who did what on the boat

 

Benefits are

·        People will trade knowledge and skills so newer sailors learn from more experienced sailors

·        Skill levels all around will increase

·        A boat which is often in the back of the fleet might win the day with more experienced sailors on board

·        Fleet members will become better acquainted with each other

 

What do you think?  We will need someone to herd the cats.

 

Ernest

 

 

 

 


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