Hey Todd

I think you need a mechanism to generate a winner every day. the TV person on the beach wants to show the boats on the beach. boats coming though surf and voice over about the leg's winner and a two sentence answer from the day's winner standing overall and how tough or great it was out there.

With two fleets that presents a problem. I agree with you that Portsmouth sucks for this job but it will generate one psuedo winner for the day... but it's worse... it could be the third boat to the beach!

The solution is to put forth a more interesting answer!

With two fleets of about the same size... I think a preemptive move would be to score like the Volvo or a regatta using elapsed time for the day which will give you the one winner per day and the overall winner of the 500. I would then score the individual fleets on elapsed time. This preserves the traditions year to year for the 20 fleet and lets the F18's generate their own history.

It's a different race then you standard 100 miler open to all comers where you have to score by handicap.

Good luck all
Mark




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