What does annoy me are the rare occasions where people misuse the loopholes in Tacticat, such as rules 17 and 18
[*]Rule 17 is complete
[*]Rule 17.1 is complete, except the definition of duecourse that in tacticat is ALWAYS the space bar course
[*]Rule 17.2 is not programmed (and, afraid, will never be unless sailing rules change to be more 'deterministic')
[*]Rule 18 is not programmed (trying to programm the rules when 4 or more boats aproach the A-mark would drive us nuts)
Misusing the holes require a good understanding of Tacticat and the sailing book. I assume tha people gets tacticat knowledge by playing BUT I've learnt that most sailors have very little understanding of the sailing book when things go a bit complicated.
A token: (only_my_opinion_ON) there it is really a minority of sailors that know when they can luff a windward boat and when they cannot (although almost everybody thinks they DO know <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif" alt="" />) (only_my_opinion_OFF).
We'll try to make do with what we have. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />
Amando.
