Our Wednesday night races feature a Star class and two PHRF classes. The Stars use a windward/leeward course of one, two or three laps and the PHRF fleets use a course devised by the RC at the time using government marks. We use an RC boat and a 'mark' boat to place a windward mark and sometimes a leeward mark for the Stars. Much of the time the windward one is also used as the first mark of a multi-leg course for the PHRF fleets as well. Then the PHRF boats continue to other government marks to finish the course. The starting RC boat moves to a finish location to make the Star windward/leeward course and the PHRF courses a little longer if conditions warrant it. If there is a problem with shortening the course, either the RC boat or the mark boat or both can move to a location to shorten one or the other courses. They take lat/long with gps's to determine course length for the PHRF fleets.
This has been working well for a few years. Gary Nylander St. Michaels MD ----- Original Message ----- From: Pete Shelquist To: [email protected] Sent: Saturday, December 15, 2012 3:38 PM Subject: Stus-List Mid-distance fleet RC I have a couple questions on what others have done re: race committee duties across multiple classes and race courses. In addition to buoy races, the last couple years our fleet has been promoting a "mid-distance" class for boats new to racing, or don't have the crew or desire to race buoys. They'll do a 15-20 mile course out to a mark and back, or around a local island, while the buoy fleet does multiple shorter WL races. It's turning out to be pretty popular, so much so we believe we need a separate judge to set the finish line and shorten course if needed. We intend to use the same starting line for all classes and have multiple starts. Have any other clubs out there found the need to have a second chase boat to run a different classes/courses? If so, what worked and didn't work? If not, how'd you do it? Thanks, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ This List is provided by the C&C Photo Album http://www.cncphotoalbum.com [email protected]
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