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Name	kroppyer
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2018-06-29 21:50:33

Re: Golden Globe Races 2018 - Seat Of The Pants commitment

Board » Sailonline Yacht Club

I will once again put up the SOTP flag in flagpole for everyone who had _SOTP added to their name by RC. If you're not familiar with the concept of flagpole: it gives a number of unofficial rankings per race, for example a ranking with only people who declared to sail SOTP. In order to declare this using flagpole, you hoist a flag. You can hoist multiple flags in order to appear in multiple rankings (I believe there's even a 60+ flag for "senior citizens").

The continuous scale of SOTP'ing

The SOTP flag is traditionally for those who do not use routing software. Other tools are allowed, like WxInspector.

From what I understand, in this particular race if you declare to sail SOTP via this thread, you declare note to use any external tools, so no WxInspector or brainaid DC editor. This is a little bit more strict that what the SOTP flag has been used for in the past, but if you declared to sail SOTP in this thread, you are definitely qualified to fly the SOTP flag on flagpole.

I have now also added the RETRO flag. If you hoist this flag you declare not to use any modern help. You only use the official sailonline clients and the options within, but nothing else. You won't even use spreadsheets or calculators. I will not hoist this flag on behalf of you when you declared you are sailing SOTP in this thread, but feel free to hoist the flag yourself over on sol.kroppyer.nl/flagpole/ if you are the die-hard SOTP'er.

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While you're logged in at flagpole, you can also hoist a couple of other flags. I personally like the sleepy pennant, which you can hoist in order to be ranked together with other people who don't get up in the middle of the night for a wx update.
2018-06-15 22:44:25

Re: Golden Globe Races 2018 - Seat Of The Pants commitment

Board » Sailonline Yacht Club

Flagpole news: I have set the SOTP flag for everyone who had _SOTP added to their boatname by RainbowChaser after posting in this thread. You can manually hoist and lower flags for your boat. Have a look at the "RETRO" flag for the die hard SOTP'ers.

Anyway, now you can find an (unofficial) SOTP ranking here: http://sol.kroppyer.nl/flagpole/index.php?view=ranking&raceid=1135&flagid=5
2018-06-14 11:42:27

Re: Golden Globe Races 2018 - Seat Of The Pants commitment

Board » Sailonline Yacht Club

This may be a nice opportunity to use flagpole again:
http://sol.kroppyer.nl/flagpole/

Log in using you sol credentials and select the GGR race. You can now hoist the SOTP flag. Now when people look at the ranking on flagpole, they can see your flag. It is also possible to filter the ranking on flags so that you can create a ranking with only the boats flying a SOTP-flag.

In addition to the SOTP-flag you can also hoist the (new) RETRO-flag. The SOTP flag is meant for people who do not use a router (but WxInspector, spreadsheets and other non-routing tools are allowed). With the RETRO flag you declare not to use a computer at all (apart from for the purpose of steering your boat of course).

I might take the liberty to hoist the SOTP flag on flagpole for everyone who declared to sail SOTP in this thread.
2018-04-13 22:43:23

Re: SWR 17/18 Leg 7 - Auckland to Itajai

Board » Technical Support

An in-race message was placed on 2018-04-07 at 05:10:30 UTC to announce that the race would be closed on Thursday, 12 April at 23:00 UTC.

The race closed on 2018-04-12 at 23:00:01 UTC.

I'm sorry you were unable to finish your race. We try to give everyone a chance to finish before closing the race, but there are always some people unable to make the finish in time, often because they started at a later date. We cannot keep all races open unnecessarily long, but we can often postpone a race close be a day, maybe two when asked. Next time when you see the message announcing the date and time the race will close, and you think you won't make the finish, you can send us an e-mail (admin@ ... ) asking for an extension.

Unfortunately we cannot re-open races, so yes, the race is gone with the wind, except for the rankings and the good memories
2018-02-10 12:30:31

Re: Chrome browser to tag non-HTTPS sites.

Board » General Discussion

As far as I understand, they will put "not secure" in the address bar, nothing that will interfere normal browsing.
2017-12-14 20:50:39

Re: Polars

Board » Technical Discussion

It is a collection that grows over the years. There are multiple ways we create polars. Sometimes there is enough data online to create reasonable polars, sometimes we have contact with boatowners, sometimes we can get enough data from tracking IRL boats while racing. Usually it's a combination of everything.
2017-12-06 08:57:21

Re: HOW TO CHANGE THE NAME OF MY SHIP?

Board » Technical Support

You can't change your boat name. We can do it for you, send us an e-mail (on the admin@sailonline address) with the new boatname you want.

--- Last Edited by kroppyer at 2017-12-06 09:11:23 ---
2017-11-22 22:58:32

Re: swr 14-15 leg1

Board » Sailonline Race Committee » Races

Good catch nacrr, it was hidden by accident. I made it re-appear and everything should be back to normal soon.

You can already find it here:
http://www.sailonline.org/races/756/leaderboard/
2017-11-20 23:35:01

Re: WX Release Time Standardisation Suggestion

Board » Sailonline Race Committee » Races

We may be able to change the time the weather update becomes active on our server, but we cannot change the time of publication on NOAA's servers. Basically, it means the weather that we will have can be known long before our delayed wx update, effectively not changing a thing at all to the time you need to check the weather and adapt your courses to react to the new forecast.

We're all aware of the sleep deprivation factor here when using the high resolution weather from the NAM model. SRC is very careful with using the model, and you can be sure that it won't happen too often that two races using different wx updates run in parallel.
2017-11-05 10:52:58

Re: VOR, Vestas incident & report.

Board » General Discussion

Yes Rod, using more realistic nautical charts would hugely improve the educational value of sol wrt navigation. but we have to be careful that sol remains accessible for the masses, not only the ones that are (a) experienced in navigation or (b) willing to invest time in their navigational skills.

I'm sure there's a middle way that solves this problem: nautical charts, but no requirement to understand every element of it to successfully sail a race (by using our own very simple and clear "you can sail in this area, not in this area"-two-colour-map as overlay for example)

While sailing on sailonline, I would really like to have some more detail of the region where I'm sailing. There's lots of reefs, shallows, bridges, etc. etc. that we're missing out on. Problem is, when I'm not online, I really like not having to worry about all these things. I'm not able to spend as much time online during the week as I would be able to spend on deck during and actual IRL sail.

Then of course, there's the technical side: we need a world map where there is a clear divide between "navigable waters" and "running aground" so that the computer can understand. As far as I know, the map we are currently using (GSHHG) is one of the best that is available at reasonable cost (in this case: free). In the best case, the process of changing to another map is a lot of work and needs a lot of testing. We are slowly moving towards a situation where we hope to be a bit more flexible, but its hard work. At some point in the future it may be possible to show some more detail in the map, but there is a lot to do before we get to that situation.

--- Last Edited by kroppyer at 2017-11-05 10:58:50 ---

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