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I have prepared a .kmz document in Google Earth, following the SOL manual.
Thank you for your interest

--- Last Edited by Alfonso Biescas at 2013-04-18 17:36:35 ---
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I have prepare a .kmz document on Google Earth, following the SOL manual for Race Proposals.
Thank you for your interest
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You are an angel! :-)

Gracias!

I have already set part of the race up and I can see one or two small problems with the way the SOL server creates the racing line - we may need to adjust a couple of marks or remove them?

I will have the race ready for preview tomorrow so you can see what I am having to do... then we can agree the final version!

:-)
Sure we find a perfect final solution.
Thanks again
:)
Ahoy Anchoilla

The race as currently set up is now available for preview.

To do this you need to log in as the sol boat.

USERNAME: sol
PASSWORD: sol

and then click here

To understand how the SOL server generates the rhumbline, imagine a piece of string that always goes "outside" the marks.

For example, Draw a line and put three marks on it A at the beginning, B in the middle and C at the end. Now move B to the left of the line from A to C, the rhumbline will now move left, to the outside of B, thus requiring SOLers to leave Mark B to starboard.

It is this convention/rule that means I have had to modify a couple of the marks.

We can add/remove as many marks/buoys/lights as you wish to make the course perfect... we just need to comply with the rhumbline rule!

:-D
Hi RC,
if I have understood well what you explained me about A, B, C and the line (it sounds madly funny) better we forget the waypoint PENJATS -the program obligates us to sail a dangerous area as you may observe if you download the chart 7A from http://www.olajedatos.com/cartas/listcartas.php- and lets sail directly to Espardelló 1. Then, everything works superb.
One correction:
Espardello 1 = Espardello
Espardello 2 = Espardell
Espardello 2 = Espardell
(Espardello is Espardell's diminutive in the particular language -pages- they speak in the island)

RD, thank you very much for your interest in this project.
I am very happy everybody comes to visit virtually the island where I live.
:)
Anchoilla - if you refresh the browser screen now you will see the changes have been made :-)

Once you are happy with this, let me know and I will archive the race until we race it in SOL :-)
I forgot to do another small correction:
The waypoint Espardello 1 had to be placed on the small southern islet. We have not to sail that strait between both island if we want to make the race like real.

Thanks again!!!
;)
Refresh your screen again... the Little Espardell is now marked correctly :-)

Its fun learning about new places wherever they are in the world! I used to travel a bit when I was in work but now, too soon, I have parkinson's which has stopped me working so the internet brings the world to me :-)

Because this is a special race (particularly because of your beautiful picture gallery) I think we need to have not just a Race Description to go on the right hand side with the race info, but perhaps a small Central Homepage blog piece too, with a picture of the island.

What do you think?

--- Last Edited by RainbowChaser at 2013-04-19 19:06:24 ---
Wow, you work fast. Thank you.
First correction is perfect.
If you change the waypoint Espardello to the adjoining islet, the race will be perfect, superb and real.
Thanks, RC
:)

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