The other thing I don't understand the reasoning is why they designate that one team enter the box from the left and the other enter from the right. I guess I've just missed that in other match racing starts - but why not just say "hey, the sequence starts now, start starting" (in the same way we do fleet racing). It just seems that the entire starting process and spin-up is so predictable...which also leads me to wonder how you can spend so much time preparing the entire campaign but mess up such a predictable sequence so badly.
If they did not; the match racing would start the moment they left the dock !
Seriously, IIRC from the times we did match racing(and the way it was explainjed to us); is was to clearly define the start of the game, and clearly define the port / stbd rights at the start of the build up. It also
allows the port and stbd boats to decide if they want to attack or not.
