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2013-02-18 15:43:59 - Chicago Mackinac 2013
I would like to propose this as a practice run for the Chicago Mac this year. The proposal is to run this race in one of these ways:
* Rerun the race several times over a few weeks (ie. best X of Y races)
* Run as a Timed Series
Other suggestions are welcomed. The objective is to try ou different strategies in a short period of time.

I saw that this race seems to have been run in the past couple of years, but I could not find the thread containing the KMZ file. Attached here is a simplified course description passing through Gray's Reef. If there is a better KMZ then I'm happy if we use that as well.

Thanks !

--- Last Edited by maelstrom at 2013-02-18 15:45:03 ---
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2013-02-18 22:58:43 - Re: Chicago Mackinac 2013
I do not have the Race kmz file but I have in the past exchanged emails with Joanne in adapting the published race instructions for use here at SOL.

Boats shall pass between

Grays Reef Light
(2009 LL No. 17775)
45.76582°N / 85.15348°W

and

Grays Reef Passage Channel Lighted Buoy 7
(2009 LL No. 17780)
45.76267°N / 85.14076°W

Boats shall leave to starboard.

New Shoal Lighted Bell Buoy 3
(2009 LL No. 17745)
45.81489°N / 85.13348°W


SOL Race configurations are not capable of handling a gate instruction between two points as described so my suggestion to:

Leave "Grays Reef Light" to Port
&
Leave "New Shoal Buoy" to Starboard

was accepted as amended.
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