Duty Free 2 Posted June 19, 2015 Share Posted June 19, 2015 Entries now open so get your entries in . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Ed 143 Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 New phrf numbers are interesting, no special designation for shorthanded now as far as I can see... is this correct? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
markm 30 Posted June 20, 2015 Share Posted June 20, 2015 Yes, now splits into short (inshore) and longer (passage) racing only. Some of all you ever wanted to know at : http://www.yachtingnz.org.nz/racing/handicaps-ratings/phrf Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Clipper 346 Posted June 24, 2015 Share Posted June 24, 2015 I see new courses. They look great, nice to keep mixing it up, thanks SSANZ. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Boatworks 23 Posted June 25, 2015 Share Posted June 25, 2015 Entered. Courses look great. Tides for race 1, not so good - will be an early start and maybe a very late finish at HMB Marina for us. Need shorter keel! Dear SSANZ. Would it be possible to put all the sailor names and the PHRF for each boat on the entry page, so we know who we are out racing with. Thanks Looking forward to another great series. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ex Elly 197 Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 Navigation questions. Help please! 1. Shearer Rock Buoy. Which is it, the yellow round buoy, or the Eastern Cardinal Mark (black yellow black)? 2. The Noises. Do we just round the two big islands to the north west (Motuhoropapa and Otata), or does this include the David Rocks, and Maria Island? 3. Browns Island Navy Buoy. Is it back in position now? It was gone this time last year. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RainbowChaser 0 Posted July 6, 2015 Share Posted July 6, 2015 Just a heads-up... Sailonline is back again as the virtual partner for SSANZ for this year's trio of races and... we'll be racing our Y88 Polar in the hopes of competing against entrants from the Y88 Association! The virtual course for the NZ Spars and Rigging 60 will be open for pre-race practice from 2110utc tomorrow, Tuesday, 7 July and you'll see the Race Description on the Homepage from 2110utc today. Do tell all your chums who can't race in reality... the competition on Sailonline is getting tougher as folks are getting more skilled in the art of wind navigation. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ex Elly 197 Posted July 8, 2015 Share Posted July 8, 2015 How will the handicaps for the Smallboat division be handled this year? Can we expect massive changes between races like last year? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
markm 30 Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Define massive Elly? My experience is that if it's going up, 0.001 is massive, if it's going down, 0.5 is inconsequential. Simplified a little, handicap has three parts : 1 part (25%), RaceTrack1 part (25%), an opinion of the design1 part (50%), SSANZ race history 2012 onwards. If you have fewer than 5 races previously in SAS, that 50% SAS part is smaller. After each race, the handicap is reworked. If a boats handicap comes out changing by more than 0.01 it may be manually assessed (still may change by more of course). The problem with a series that's only three races long is that if only small changes happen and any handicaps were not spot on to start with, the series is all over after race two and you may as well have not bothered making any changes. No right answer, there are good reasons to run a series where you make no changes at all and there are good reasons why you should change. It can be though that if you make change but do it in a way that makes them inconsequential, you end up with the worst of both worlds not the best. Any opinions offered after race 1, well after the race 1 handicaps are known, are treated with the smallest degree of cynicism. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ex Elly 197 Posted July 9, 2015 Share Posted July 9, 2015 Thanks for the thorough reply Mark. And 'massive' is probably an exaggeration! But we saw Begorrah down from 0.674 to 0.661. And Settlers Reach up from 0.740 to 0.750. And some others by more than 0.01 All on the basis of one very light wind race. Contrast this to the PHRF which didn't seem to change so much. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
B00B00 310 Posted July 10, 2015 Share Posted July 10, 2015 Should be a lot of fun out there tomorrow. I'm on the Sun Fast 3600 again. Our first attempt at 2 handed in this boat so will be learning as we go. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RushMan 31 Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Is Facebook counted as outside assistance? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fish 0 Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Needs to be available to everyone, so if you were un-friended it would be outside assistance. It would also have to not be specific info for a boat or group of boats, I.e. It would need to be 'general info'. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RushMan 31 Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 I was looking at various posts from today. In one photo it showed slow going, in the other there was a reef in so a suggestion of a change in breeze. Such information in the hands of someone smarter than I, might be useful. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Fish 0 Posted July 11, 2015 Share Posted July 11, 2015 Sounds more like a handicap than anything, if your racing and looking at Facebook instead of your sails and wind on the water. If it's a publicly available page it's no different to the now casting, which would be much greater advantage to anyone monitoring that in the situation of significant changes in wind condition. Private messages from one boat to another or an exclusive group of boats about changes in conditions would be outside assistance though. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
RushMan 31 Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 Luckily for me some boats are posting photos to FB during the race so I can follow the adventures from my current land locked location. I had forgotten about now casting. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Clipper 346 Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 too many tacks to have time to look at facebook. see our track below. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ScottiE 174 Posted July 12, 2015 Share Posted July 12, 2015 looks like it was pretty good going for most of it Ken - helped to have kept you warm! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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