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2013-01-20 09:22:10 - Captain Anderson BC lighthouse supply
My grandfather serviced the lighthouses on the West Coast of Canada during the age of sail boats. This series is based on what he may have done all those years ago.

The attached screen shot gives a taster of the series. It will be 10 races totally 1900nm. Some legs will be offshore, some through narrow channels. But they will pass all 50 lighthouses in British Columbia.
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2013-01-20 10:18:09 - Re: Captain Anderson BC lighthouse supply
Pic attached this time.
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2013-01-21 18:40:53 - Re: Captain Anderson BC lighthouse supply
What fun to be able to make a race out of your grandfather's work!! :-)

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2013-02-01 08:55:39 - Re: Captain Anderson BC lighthouse supply
Here is the first draft of the 10 legs!
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2013-02-01 09:01:38 - Re: Captain Anderson BC lighthouse supply
A very interesting challenge would be to service the lights in the order of the SOLer's chosing. A maximum number of lights per leg and restricted port locations would be required. Probably difficult to set up, but very interesting all the same. One for the future perhaps.
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2013-02-01 09:08:18 - Re: Captain Anderson BC lighthouse supply
That's certainly a interesting concept. We have a similar race here in Holland. Its a 24h race and you are allowed to sail your own route around a great number of marks. The goal is to make the most miles in 24h's but you are not allowed to sail the same leg multiple times.
It turns out to be a real puzzle race.

Unfortunately at this point such a race is not possible on the server side. But the race is a challenge even if we make it a normal fleet-race.

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2013-03-08 11:43:40 - Re: Captain Anderson BC lighthouse supply
Hi NZL Scotsman - I will be setting up the first leg of your 10-leg BC Lighthouses Series to run next weekend... once it is set up we can decide if we want it to run as a TIMED or a traditional fleet race.

I will post a link here once its ready to be previewed by the sol boat :-)
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2013-04-21 16:44:49 - Re: Captain Anderson BC lighthouse supply
The SECOND leg of this series is now set up and ready for preview. It will be raced as a timed race but for preview purposes, of course, it has to be set up as a fleet race (we adjust that just before opening the race).

To preview the course (I suspect you may want to adjust a waypoint or two to optimise rhumbline) just log in as the sol boat:

USERNAME: sol
PASSWORD: sol

and then click here

Please note that for this race I have used nam_awip wx so it is higher resolution.

Let me know what you would like to see adjusted, if anything!
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2013-04-22 07:16:38 - Re: Captain Anderson BC lighthouse supply
Access pass not active point. Otherwise looks good.
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2013-04-22 09:34:40 - Re: Captain Anderson BC lighthouse supply
I have checked the kmz and it says Active Pass, as does GE, rather than Active Point or Access Pass (altthough if you zoom in, there is also Lighthouse Point).

It is therefore now changed to Active Pass.

I wonder if there is a particular story to go with that light - there's no conventional reason for either of us to have made up or mistaken the name... in all the years of setting up races I have misspelled but never made up a waypoint!
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