Tony,
What is this ?
And he only lives half an hour away
The actual distance from my house to the event site is 96,4 km. From my sailing club in Zandvoort, were I keep my boat as you very well know, to the event site is 110,1 km. (used a route planner to get this data)
You want me to cover that distance (say 100 km) in 30 minutes !
[color:"red"]!! AT 200 KM/HOUR !! [/color] , while dragging a boat trailer behind my 14 year old Toyota starlet !!!???
You are aware that we have a maximum speed limit of 80 km/hour here in the Netherlands for cars pulling trailers ?
You on the other hand keep your boat at 150 km from the event side, but required TWO FULL HOURS to cover that distance. At an average speed of (ONLY ?) about 75 km/hour.
Why am I subjected to such a impossible benchmark here ?
Surely if you took 2 hours then it would have taken me 1.5 hours to get there instead of only 30 minuts. I mean the ratio of covered distances very much suggests this.
However I never stated anywhere that the distance was the reason I didn't attend this race. So I also fail to see why "he only lives half an hour away" is in any way meaningful, even it was true.
But I can let that slide. What I can't let slide is the fact that this thread has now shown to be full of glaring misstatements. With some of these appearing to be intentional. Surely, Tony you are aware that I keep my boat in Zandvoort, so why did you still make the claim that I only live 30 minutes away from the Tiengemeente event side ? Zandvoort is a pretty well know place in NL and there is no way you could not have know that Zandvoort is much further away from Hellevoetsluis (event side) then 30 minutes.
Now I know that several people would jump at any chance to give me a payback for what ever they feel I've done to them or their prefered cat designs or brands. But doing that by gross misstatements of the obvious truth is more than just a little bit over the line.
If you really have to then get me on REAL and THRUTHFUL data, not on false accusations.
Also I serious disapprove of the tendency to filter out the worst performing boats in a fleet and somehow draw far reaching conclusions from those arguable bad results. Conclusions like : "IMHO, With a rating of 102, which is the same as the F18s, you would have to sail like crazy to get a good result." It feels like you are actively trying to proof something that is intrincly untruthful by any means possible. I would soon venture to call that misleading by intent. And no added smileys at the end of your obviously false claims can exonerate you !
And yes the Bim did do very well. But I do think you will agree with me that the configuration they used was not standard F16 (two-up unirig, or is this normal?),
No I don't agree with that Tony ! Simply because, I helped the former owners in converting this boat from its One-Design Bim 16 specs to F16 compliance. It was decided to forget about adding a jib as it was doubtful wether the bows could take the load of a bridle with a single forestay setup and they felt that sailing without a jib would not hurt them too much as long as they flew a spinnaker on the downwind legs. They entlargered their mainsail to full F16 size thus putting themselfs out of the BIM 16 class.
The F16 rules clearly state that a boat may be sailed with "less" sails then allowed by other rules. If you think you will do better without a spinnaker or a jib then you may leave those sails on the beach and still be considered full F16 compliant. Obviously such a decision is never unfair to the other boats which are sailing with a full compliment of sails, so why should the F16 class rules ban such a choice. Every designer is fully free to design his optimal boat within the bounderies of the F16 class rules. This Bim 16 boat and its former owners did just that and took a risk by accepting to sail without a jib despite the fact that they are allowed to have one in 2-up mode.
So from the point of view from the class rules this is "normal".
I guess that in the light conditions of this Tiengemeente event they have proven that indeed one can get by without a jib in 2-up mode. I personally still expect them to suffer a little more in stronger winds and on reaches.
... which is fine since they where sailing in the Open class. ...
Wasn't everybody in this event ?
I mean, including the much trompeted One-design classes.
Wouter
