| Singapore F16 Challenge #66641 02/14/06 10:20 PM 02/14/06 10:20 PM |
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Posts: 539 | Hi All The F16 Challenge has just been completed over the weekend Feb 11 and 12 at Changi Sailing Club in Singapore. Sat was 4 sprint races in the afternoon with beach starts and finishing outside the club. Around 5 knots of breeze and different wind angle for each race. Sun was a long marathon race around Pulau Tekong. Only made about 1/4 of the 20nm distance. Wind completely crapped out to nothing and the tide was against the fleet big time. Took the fleet nearly 5 hours to do 1/4 distance. Not fun. Thanks to Scott and Alice for organising a great event. Results are here: http://www.csc.org.sg/water/race/result/feb06/f16results.xlsPics of us floating about are here: http://www.csc.org.sg/water/race/photo/f16/index.htmRacing was pretty close and the beach starts a bit of lottery. Good to see 2 of the Shanghai sailors coming down to sail (Dirk and Olivier). Cheers JC | | | Re: Singapore F16 Challenge
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#66642 02/16/06 08:17 PM 02/16/06 08:17 PM |
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Posts: 185 Shanghai, China | Hi James,
was nice seeing you again and although the 28 knot from the weekend before would have been a much more challenging wind environment for the F16 challenge, it still was a nice event. Thnaks for putting the links!
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#66643 02/23/06 06:59 AM 02/23/06 06:59 AM | Anonymous
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Unregistered | Hi JC, I don't seem to be able to read results, it's a format I don't have or something? Any chance of a quick story, who won what boat Blade or Taipan? etc. Rgards Gary. | | | Re: Singapore F16 Challenge
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#66645 02/24/06 06:50 AM 02/24/06 06:50 AM |
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Posts: 185 Shanghai, China | hi gary,
I think hopes are always more ambitious than what reality offers it. while it definitely would be interesting to get an idea which design or mainsail etc. is doing better in what kind of conditions, its very difficult to say from these races. you never know performance is based on the sailor and which degree can be related to the vessel itself. you need high competitive proven sailors, a reasonable number of boats, a course with constant wind conditions not to much surprisingly favouring one side etc...
From that point of view it makes perfect sense to give a statement in a F18 worldchampionship, an A-class worlds, olympic tornado sailing etc... but these 'just for fun' sailing events will never offer a clear view of what the boats are capable of...
regarding the nice singapore event [if you came for fun] they had a strange idea of doing le-mans like beach starts where your starting position on the beach towards the first mark was quite crucial and chosen by a lottery system... so how much can you still talk of a serious race with such a starting system? than the sailors were quite different skilled, so pretty sure the final outcomes much more gave an impression of the crew strenghths than any conclusion about boat design...
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#66646 02/24/06 06:56 AM 02/24/06 06:56 AM | Anonymous
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Unregistered | Hi JC, thanks for the info, interesting comments on nosediving, Capricorn V'S Taipan, are you sure you where pushing both boats as hard, pressure in F18's can make you push boat very hard. But certainly my experience with big square top is that it will drive bows under if you are not careful. Regards Gary. | | |
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