I'll bite. For data reporting, like results, the scorer needs an easy way to upload the data. It's not pretty or easy to read, but I'll be posting here this weekend for Tradewinds. I cut and paste from Sailwave.
Right... getting the results posted is part of the OA's responsibility... getting the preliminary draft to the website and posted for the sailors allows for corrections/protests to be lodged AND the spectators to stay up with the scores.... (get Rick to give you the keys to the website.... it's easy to upload the html ready sailwave file if you have access to the web site.
As far as conditions reporting and action on the course it takes somebody savvy enough to know what they are looking at from a power boat to report.
Reporting on sailing blow by blow is indeed a skill... Surf City does a great job... I suspect his years of experience at regatta support and crash boat have given him the keen eye.
More importantly... Reporting is not simply something additional to you mark boat duties... etc. The PRO won't deal with... sorry... i have to write some notes down before i move the mark... you will be kicked out of Bound's BIMBO club that way.
I wouldn't expect any racer to report until after the event. Their head is in the game, not in the reporting.
Well... that is what Bob H and Simon have been doing for the US and AUS A class events... They have done a fabulous job of getting a perspective down in writing for the rest of us. Their point of view is not reporting... just their spin and perspective... the two things are different.
I am suggesting that the honorarium will express the class's real appreciation of the value that these two guys and other cat sailors are bringing to the class and the event.
In my world... old news is no news.... My interest in the weekend event report that I missed or attended is keen on Sunday night... VERY High on Monday morning. and rapidly diminishing after lunch. Your mileage might vary.
Hope the sailors get to the keys and you have a great event!