1 africa says...

I am 66 years old captain of ocean going vessels,a master mariner.I am also a sailor with many,many regattas with cruising boats in over 50years of experience. The reason I am writing this is very simple-an advise in organizing the regattas. In my opinion the virtual on line regattas should be as close as possible to real regattas and real rules in organizing real regattas.As soon as this is not followed there is the space for misinterpretation and therefor cheating .The rules should be very clear all the way along the route. Very good example of partly badly organized regatta is just this Round Texada Race. There is the instruction that Texada island and the buoy on northern end of it could be rounded in any direction.This is impossible in real races.Imagine what a mess on the buoy being approached from opposite direction with number of boats. Furthermore even if it is allowed in this virtual race to round the island from one or other side than the island should be rounded and not only the buoy as done by many, many boats in both Texada races. I expected that all those boats will be disqualified by organizers or the race committee as this is clear cheating.Nothing was done and all those boats were regularly ranked.

I hope you would take in consideration my advises for future races.

Capt. D.P.master mariner

Posted at 12:55 a.m. on November 22, 2009

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