Re: Beginner events and why they're hard for beginners

From: art <upwind120_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 08 Sep 2012 17:27:35 -0000

Ron, I finally got your book, after almost a month of shipping delays, and it's a combination of beautiful and daunting.

Back on topic, in Model Yacht Racing, we have A and B fleets, and your placement in either fleet depends on your record. Everybody sails together, or against each other (which has no equivalent in indoor), but your scoring is only within your own fleet. Unless you're consistently good or consistently bad, you'll go back and forth between the fleets from year to year. If you're a B sailor and have a good season, you get moved up to A next year and get clobbered.

I don't know how aplicable the principle would be here, as we get more-or-less the same 16 or 18 guys out twice a week, and the placement is by finishing order, not time. There is a computer program that they use for all the calculating, and each club has one or two guys who know how to use it.

BUT... the good sailors always finish at or near the top, just like the good fliers in indoor.

Art.
Received on Sat Sep 08 2012 - 10:27:36 CEST