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Re: Datchet sept 19-20th [Re: Mark P] #191652
09/22/09 12:55 PM
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On the committee boat there were quite a lot of flags. On its port side it was flying:

- A red flag (leave marks to port)
- A yellow flag (start line marker) with a black flag (don't mess with the starts!) under it.

On the starboard side:

- A blue flag (In position at the finish line)
- A club burgee

Class flags (numerals 1 to 5, so ours was blue/yellow) and the preparatory flag were flown on the port side as well.

Simple really. And all explained in the SI which were available on the table upstairs where you have signed in on Saturday, as well as pinned to the official notice board next to the office in the wet bar.

On the start before our third start the Pro started two classes (start 3 and 4) at the same time by stacking the two numerals. She did it because there was only two boats on start 3 and they were both gone back ashore at that point. A couple of 49ers didn't notice and came screaming under spi from the other end of the reservoir. They started a couple of minutes late, during our sequence.

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Re: Datchet sept 19-20th [Re: pepin] #191660
09/22/09 01:35 PM
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Yea, simple if you do it every week. However, I'm more used to lights for an onshore start or two flags for a committee boat start, that's what I call simple grin


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Re: Datchet sept 19-20th [Re: Mark P] #191701
09/22/09 04:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Mark P
Yea, simple if you do it every week. However, I'm more used to lights for an onshore start or two flags for a committee boat start, that's what I call simple grin


Nah - I've tried your club starts. We were still trying to figure out which lights we were supposed to be looking at and which boat was supposed to be the pin when everyone else started. So we just followed them... which is much like how we do it for most of the Datchet club starts laugh

I'm not sure about the black flag either. I didn't see it, but then I wouldn't have noticed it either (I thought I was doing well to recognise our class flag) but from what I know of the people on the committee boat I would have expected them to point it out.

Paul

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