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2011-08-21 16:20:33 - Race to Mackinac 2011
The FIRST practice race on Lake Huron will be tonight, Sunday 21 August, as follows:

TIME: 1800utc

START:
SOL Race Start (or close by)

COURSE:
Start
Leave M2 to PORT
Leave M3 to STARBOARD
Finish

FINISH:
Cross the M1/M5 line from NW to SE

If the first round is completed quickly then there will be a second round without stopping (using the M1/M5 line as a gate) but a ranking will be declared after Round 1.

RACING
africa (CRO)
GinaT (GBR)
glynnwi (GBR)
Ketch (GBR)
NOR Careka (NOR)
NOR_svein (NOR)
RainbowChaser (GBR)
robert1(SWE)
sadlersailing (GBR)
WINDEGG (NED)
zero (BRA)

RANKING

1 africa (CRO)
2 WINDEGG (NED)
3 sadlersailing (GBR)
4 Ketch (GBR)
5 zero (BRA)
6 RainbowChaser (GBR)
7 NOR Careka (NOR)
8 GinaT (GBR)
9 glynnwi (GBR)
10 robert1(SWE)
DNF NOR_svein (NOR)

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--- Last Edited by RainbowChaser at 2011-08-21 20:30:18 ---
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2011-08-22 07:21:36 - Re: Race to Mackinac 2011
The SECOND practice race will be tonight, Monday 22 August as follows:

TIME: 1800utc

START:
Cross the M1/M5 line from SE to NW

COURSE:
Start
Leave M2 to PORT
Leave M3 to PORT
Leave M4 to PORT
Finish

FINISH:
Cross the M1/M5 line from NW to SE

RACING

GinaT (GBR)
glynnwi (GBR)
HappyHour (GER)
NOR Careka (NOR)
NOR Jawik (NOR)
NOR_svein (NOR)
Pocobueno (GER)
RainbowChaser (GBR)
robert1(SWE)

RANKING AT M3

1 Poco
2 Jawik
3 Careka
4 HappyHour
5 GinaT
5 glynn
5 robert
8 svein
9 Rainbow
10 BS1
11 TeamGermany (start-time unknown)

FINAL RANKING

1 Pocobueno (GER)
2 HappyHour (GER)
3 glynnwi (GBR)
4 NOR Careka (NOR)
5 robert1(SWE)
6 NOR_svein (NOR)
7 GinaT (GBR)
8 NOR Jawik (NOR)
8 RainbowChaser (GBR)
10 BS1 (FIN)
11 TeamGermany (GER) (start time unknown)

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--- Last Edited by RainbowChaser at 2011-08-22 19:54:55 ---
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2011-08-23 17:58:37 - Re: Race to Mackinac 2011
RC, i just talked with Pocobueno and asked him how the finish time is calculated and he couldnt answer my question.
We both want to know:
How do you calculate the finishtime ?

Keep on going with your encouragement :)
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2011-08-23 19:17:21 - Re: Race to Mackinac 2011
HappyHour - I am not quite sure what you mean by calculating a finish time? We finish the practice race when we cross the line.

If you log in through another browser as the sol boat (username:sol and password: sol) then you can see the boats crossing the line independently from the view you get from your own boat.

If you mean how do I work out a roughly 2hr practice race then there is no formula (which is why I seem to get it wrong quite often). If someone were to use a router and run the course based on forecast winds then I imagine it could be worked out.

I just figure the best speed the boat can do in each direction and then make a course to fit as best I can :-)

All very rudimentary!!

Hope this helps.
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2011-08-23 20:08:46 - Re: Race to Mackinac 2011
"We finish the practice race when we cross the line."

Sure, but how do you know which boat crosses the line at first, second, ...
Is it just the browser view or have you access to more exactly server datas. Its just a technical question.
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2011-08-24 10:01:53 - Re: Race to Mackinac 2011
Hello RC !
When boats are very close to each other , due to different screen update-times of the different boats, the ranking on screen changes with every screen update in my browser.
So i am lucky when my boat crosses the line due to matching screen update-time as first.
Very difficult then to decide who's the winner

Hope you can understand what I mean.
Kind Regards Poco.

--- Last Edited by Poco Bueno at 2011-08-24 10:08:53 ---

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