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2012-09-07 09:52:10 - Re: Aaron Gage Round Australia.
Sorry, that was me as sol.
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2012-09-07 10:02:14 - Re: Aaron Gage Round Australia.
The one-a-month idea sounds about right to me too... and I like the idea that the finish in Adelaide should sort-of coincide with Aaron's anniversary. My personal preference is no official series but... let's see how others respond. I've put a link to my earlier post into FB to spread the word.
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2012-09-07 20:27:14 - Re: Aaron Gage Round Australia.
I think it should be an official series and only drop one race.

Great work with the race, looking forward to it.

Kevin
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2012-09-10 18:35:56 - Re: Aaron Gage Round Australia.
My two cents on this Topic:

Make it a Series with no drops. Remebering AGages Efforts on SOL, the winner of this series should need to pay maximum efforts too.

Don't let the gaps between the Stages become too long, to keep the Series together. A Weekend-Race every Month doesn't look much like a connected Series...
I don't know how fixed the dates have to be according to other scheduled races, but maybe the gaps might match the time the winner spent on the last Leg.

As it is an Aussie series the Starts shall be during Aussie-daytime which is early morning or middle of the night in Europe and USA, so starts should be scheduled on Weekends as it might be easier to stay awake if there's no Alarm ringing next morning. ;)
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2012-09-10 19:36:06 - Re: Aaron Gage Round Australia.
Sounds very good
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2012-09-10 19:55:16 - Re: Aaron Gage Round Australia.
Agree with Taz. No Drops. I have never agreed with idea of drops in sail racing--it is just "pretend"---that "I" didn't do THAT badly!!!
If it breaks, it's not strong enough--if it doesn't, it's too heavy.
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2012-09-10 20:24:21 - Re: Aaron Gage Round Australia.
This may be a really stupid question but what are drops?
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2012-09-10 20:27:51 - Re: Aaron Gage Round Australia.
I think Rod means "dropping a race from the series" ... so the result isn't the sum of all the results but just the sum of X out of Y (total) races.

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I think i agree.. either no series OR a full series. Aaron would deffo be all for a full series!!
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2012-09-10 20:30:11 - Re: Aaron Gage Round Australia.
Ahoi Pat !

Drops are if in a series ,for example, just your best 6 results of ten races are counted. The 4 worse results "drop" out of the ranking, i.e. are not counted...

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2012-09-10 20:34:04 - Re: Aaron Gage Round Australia.
My two cents :

In this very special case I think every race should be counted, no drops.. If every race is as well counted for SYC ranking, sailors can concentrate to do a few good races or go for the series...

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