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Board » Flag Officers » Race proposals » The Tall Ships Races in July 2011

Posted by 76Trombones Posts 362 Registered at 2009-08-03 18:04:56	2011-05-14 21:26:59 - Re: The Tall Ships Races in July 2011
	It's a "split spanker". The Germans liked them. I've only seen the two parts called upper/lower and it's supposed to make trimming the sail balance easier. The polar is a slightly SOLified version of the polar for Gorch Fock published in "Seamanship in the age of sail". The upgraded client should be happy with it, and it looks like fun! The crafty Tallship organisers have laid out the races to be mostly downwind though - sneaky.
Posted by Rod Posts 392 Registered at 2010-06-24 22:30:48	2011-05-15 00:09:39 - Re: The Tall Ships Races in July 2011
	I'm sorry about the "down wind" part. These SOL races are supposed to be difficult, to challenge the seamanship and navigation ability of the SOLers...not to make them "Easy" If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
Posted by 76Trombones Posts 362 Registered at 2009-08-03 18:04:56	2011-05-15 00:18:06 - Re: The Tall Ships Races in July 2011
	I suppose I can see the attraction IRL (which we are mirroring)... No such practicalities in SOL - we can (and will! ) run some tough ones with the square rig polars.
Posted by NOR_Jawik Posts 70 Registered at 2008-08-31 20:55:18	2011-05-15 08:19:07 - Re: The Tall Ships Races in July 2011
	RainbowChaser said @ 2011-05-14 17:35:53: So... 'tis a work in progress!! 2011-05-14 17:36:18 --- Yes I got your mail and I like the progress. At least we can be ready for the next "year" TSR. But I fear that SOL can get a large fan base so that we older SOLers will drown in the regattas. Students on these ships and their family around the world is a huge crowd of people and I'm no longer sure what I have initiated Can SOL cope with this ? We will probably get a large amount of people who only log on to follow TSR and students. Registered as participants and not real sailors and this will turn out on the points to us. Here you have an error that must be treated in a different way of ranking. --- Last Edited by NOR Jawik at 2011-05-15 08:29:55 ---
Posted by 76Trombones Posts 362 Registered at 2009-08-03 18:04:56	2011-05-17 15:10:32 - Re: The Tall Ships Races in July 2011
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Posted by RainbowChaser Posts 2656 Registered at 2009-06-14 09:44:50	2011-05-23 14:30:58 - Re: The Tall Ships Races in July 2011
	duplicate of below post for some reason now deleted!!! --- Last Edited by RainbowChaser at 2011-05-23 15:46:11 ---
Posted by RainbowChaser Posts 2656 Registered at 2009-06-14 09:44:50	2011-05-23 14:31:03 - Re: The Tall Ships Races in July 2011
	Just a quick update for anyone interested in how this is panning out. It would seem that STI is happy to work with SOL (still some details to clarify but the prinicple is accepted!!) - the idea is to have a boat-type/polar for more than one class and SOL will race the Tall Ships races at the same time as they are being raced in reality. SOL will, of course, be linking to the STI website and its tracker so that all info is available to SOLers and, hopefully, STI will also mention SOL somewhere!! Great news eh??!! --- Last Edited by RainbowChaser at 2011-05-23 14:32:09 ---
Posted by NOR_Jawik Posts 70 Registered at 2008-08-31 20:55:18	2011-05-23 14:55:25 - Re: The Tall Ships Races in July 2011
	I like this
Posted by RainbowChaser Posts 2656 Registered at 2009-06-14 09:44:50	2011-05-29 16:00:55 - Re: The Tall Ships Races in July 2011
	It gets better!! STI are going to work on the polar/txt file for the SOL Barque to make three additional polars so SOL will be racing the four main classes of boat that are being raced in reality!! We are also optimistic that the company providing the trackers for the Tall Ships will be happy to liaise with SOL so we have at least one boat per class of the real fleet appearing on the SOL race screen. This is all a little short notice for this year but we will all be doing our best to make it an excellent "first year" so that we buddy-up again with STI in the future!!!
Posted by RainbowChaser Posts 2656 Registered at 2009-06-14 09:44:50	2011-06-18 18:21:57 - Re: The Tall Ships Races in July 2011
	UPDATE: we have three out of the five polars prepared by STI and tweaked by SOL's Polar Dudes and earlier today I set up the first race so that STI can log in and see how a race will look. 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 stay open for a few days! For the SOL race there will be five boats to choose from: Class A Large Class A Small Class B Class C Class D Hereare definitions for these classes. You can also find all the information about this year's races here. --- Last Edited by RainbowChaser at 2011-06-18 20:22:10 ---

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