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2011-06-26 12:38:38 - The Tall Ships Races 2011 -
This year will be the first time that SOL buddies up with The Tall Ships Races and to allow SOLers to have the fun of choosing to race a different boat in each event, the events will be run independently, i.e., not as a series.

The first race starts at the beginning of July, so it is not long to decide which boat appeals.

Here are polar graphics for each boat available, showing VMG (thanks AGage):

Class A Large
Class A Small
Class B
Class C
Class D


This is going to be fun!!
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Class A Large/Class A Small Boats
Current Entry List
Definition of a Tall Ship
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Waterford Tall Ships website
Port of Waterford Arrivals
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Shetland
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Lerwick Port Info
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Tall Ships Captains Manual - Lerwick

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2011-06-26 17:15:13 - Re: The Tall Ships Races 2011
This will be an amazing experience.
Thanks to all who put this together.

I am looking forward to the starting gun.

Antonio (zero)
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2011-06-26 18:59:31 - Re: The Tall Ships Races 2011
Hi zero - I am really looking forward to it.. am going to dig out YouTubes of what I can find too!!

The background to how this came about is all here :-D

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2011-06-26 21:24:08 - Re: The Tall Ships Races 2011
I want to register right NOW ;-)

Cheers for putting this together!

(chksix)
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2011-06-27 10:57:42 - Re: The Tall Ships Races 2011
The silhouette graphic in the main page blog is clickable to see a larger version with the polars presented at the same scale.

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2011-06-27 16:25:52 - Re: The Tall Ships Races 2011
Everyone is very welcome also to have a sneak preview, as the sol boat.

So

Login as the SOL boat:

Username: sol
Password: sol

and then click here

The race will become visible on the SOL Homepage once we have confirmed a start time.

All information about this year's races can be found here.

and

definitions of each class can be found
here.



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2011-06-28 18:05:56 - Re: The Tall Ships Races 2011
The SOL Engine Room is liaising with Yellowbrick Tracking who are the tracker providers for the Tall Ships Races 2011 to get one boat in each category onto the SOL screen.

The IRL Race Director has chosen the following boats for SOL to track as he considers them to be eminently representative of their category:

Class A (L) -- Mir
Class A (S) -- Pogoria
Class B -- Rupel
Class C -- Dar Szczecina
Class D -- Rona II




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2011-06-28 21:53:25 - Re: The Tall Ships Races 2011
Although the weather looks unfavorable for it I'll go with Class A as the full riggers are awesome.

Will the performance calculation be different for each class also? The small ones would pick up speed quicker than the big, heavy ships.

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2011-06-29 10:10:05 - Re: The Tall Ships Races 2011
Pierre, performance % is computed the same for all boats, as it is in other multi-class races - class isn't part of the equation (literally ;-) ).

I think one of the Class A Large would IRL take a LOOOONG time to tack - actually I wonder if it is even possible for them to pass head to wind ??



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2011-06-29 11:09:56 - Re: The Tall Ships Races 2011
A well-sailed square rigger can be more manoeuverable than a fore-aft rigged vessel. The sails on the different masts can be braced around independently, so you
have side-to-side thrust available even with no steerage way. Fore pushing bow to port, mizzen pushing stern to stb, rudder ready to back stern to stb etc... The closest a modern rig can get is backing the jib, but in most boats it's pretty much a momentum affair.

Not super snappy though! Sails could be hauled up, or struck and reset, rigging re-led...

Some excellent reading for between tacks:

"Seamanship in the Age of Sail"

There a very generous preview on Google books!

Also maybe "Eagle Seamanship" and "A Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor". Not so wonderfully illustrated, but fun all the same.

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