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2013-04-15 17:49:25 - Nine islands, nine lights
Hi, SOLers,
I want to propose you a race around the small island I live, work and sail: Formentera.
Herewith I upload a pdf with the general concepts of the event.
I do hope SOLers accept to enjoy, virtually at least, our beautiful waters.
Please, ask me whatever you want to know about the project or the island itself.
Thank you for your interest.
Blow good winds for SOLers
Anchoilla

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2013-04-15 17:51:58 - Re: Nine islands, nine lights
Oh, I beg your pardon.
I forgot to say that was me he who sent the proposal of this race.
Anchoilla
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2013-04-15 19:08:10 - Re: Nine islands, nine lights
La regata me parece muy entretenida, Anchoilla. Espero que la Administración de SOL acepte tu propuesta.
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2013-04-15 19:37:09 - Re: Nine islands, nine lights
si the magnificent journey very good proposal, I hope you like the administrators as me.
would be the only race that begins and ends in Spain so far this year, if I like a lot

el recorrido magnifico la propuesta muy buena , espero que a los administradores les guste como a mi.
seria la unica regata que empieza y termina en españa en lo que va de año , si me gusta y mucho
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2013-04-15 19:40:46 - Re: Nine islands, nine lights
Hola Anchoilla - that really has to be one of the best ever race proposals I have had the honour to view! It is just brilliant... Gracias for all your work and preparation.

Just one small thing - please would you make the waypoints in Decimal Degrees to save me having to do that (to set them up in SOL they need to be Decimal Degrees and not Degrees Minutes Seconds).

:-D BRAVO!
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2013-04-15 21:22:11 - Re: Nine islands, nine lights
Thanks for your kind words, RC.
For sure I translate the waypoints to Decimal Degrees.
Thanks elbetico, thanks Claudio.
:)

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2013-04-16 21:18:34 - Re: Nine islands, nine lights
I have translated the waypoints to Decimal Degrees and made some changes. I do hope you'll like this version.
Thanks.
Ancho
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2013-04-17 15:22:18 - Re: Nine islands, nine lights
Still as fabulous as when I first read it. It is such a pleasure to receive a quality race proposal :-)

We have a race starting this evening and I am setting up another for the weekend at the moment so I will set this up for preview over the next few days so we can make sure it looks good in SOL and then we can pick a date, based on the SOL Racing Year when it will be good to run. Do you have specific dates in mind for it?
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2013-04-18 13:16:14 - Re: Nine islands, nine lights
Thank you again, RC.
I think a good date could be June 22th, starting at 8.00 UTC. It is week end and the race could take about 24h long.
But the date SOL team choose sure will be right.
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2013-04-18 17:35:31 - Re: Nine islands, nine lights
I have prepared a .kmz document in Google Earth, following the SOL manual.
Thank you for your interest
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