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victory


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2012-07-23 19:39:02 - Restarts after freeze
Why did we restart 2 of the races from current positions and not the other one.Also Why only a restart notice on homepage for transat.Some like me who dont use beta didnt know what was happening.

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2012-07-23 21:21:13 - Re: Restarts after freeze
Apologies to all who had put in so much work to stay near the front :-\ I was on the leading edge as well. In the end we had to make a choice. I felt that moving and restarting would keep more boats in the race.

We needed to restart the other two races as soon as possible, and SOL could only restart all concurrent races at once. This conflicted with being able to notify enough people in the Transat to keep the race worth sailing.

We'd experienced a big shift that had put half of the fleet on a course for the North shore, and a bunch of the rest headed for the Sourthern one. The other two races will be shuffled a bit as well, but losing a big chunk of the fleet near the start of a race isn't much fun.

Moving the start hopefully means that we will pick up a few extra boats that couldn't make the original start. We will be back in synch with the real boats, and we still have a good race.

I was really looking forward to this one, as it really is one of THE big races from past years when the unlimited catamarans used to do it. I was looking forward to hitting the open ocean, and it was going to be a neat change to have the fleet switch to ocean tactics after being spread out in the river. It would have looked very different than the "shock wave" that we usually get. We don't get a chance to race against such a big irl fleet very often either. It's too bad we missed our chance to run the whole course, but the goal now is to stage a race that is fun for as many people as possible.
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2012-07-24 09:01:40 - Re: Restarts after freeze
All good here... happy to race whatever, wherever, whenever... ;-)
I like to talk a lot... sometimes I even make sense, mostly not...
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2012-07-25 02:24:49 - Re: Restarts after freeze
Sorry we lost you on the restart Victory - you definitely deserved your several hour lead on the fleet...

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