Grafham winter icicle 16 March

[Bob Carter]

Just a quick reminder that it is the last event of our winter travellers series at Grafham on 16 March.

It may interest you to know that Grafham has a whole new way of starting it's club racing these days. Gone are the buckets and flags and in come numeral boards which change every minute. It is a system that was devised as a result of watching the America's Cup racing in San Francisco.
it is fairly straight forward and all is explained in the sailing instructions but it would be wise to make it to the briefing session before the racing.

The sprint 15s will start first in the sequence and all other aspects will be as previous years. The first race will not be before 1058 hours and the full notice of race is on this web site and the Grafham websit.

See you on the 16 march.

Cheers

Bob

[Bob Carter]

It looks like the winter series winner will be between Thomas Sandal, Stuart Snell and Paul Grattage. Can Paul win at Grafham and dump his 15th place to take the series. It looks possible.
I presume that the talk of restaging the Datchet event has fallen by the wayside for this year, but I would be grateful if Erling or Paul can confirm it.
Cheers
Bob

[Erling]

Hi Bob
Grafham will be the last of the winter TT events. I hope we will be able to race at Datchet next winter.

[Frank]

Forecast looks favourable, 15mph gusting 20mph & sunshine !

[Bob Carter]

Forecast looks favourable, 15mph gusting 20mph & sunshine !

Good job after the snow of last year
Cheers
Bob
PS Is the Grubguru coming?
PPS I like the Avatar

[Bob Carter]

Just a thought.

DON'T BE LATE.

One of the disadvantages of the new starting sequence is that it is not friendly to late starters. You have just 2 minutes to start after the class start.
If you arrive at the starting line more than 2 mins after the starting numeral (#3) you will get a dns.

I guess that you can not win them all......

Cheers

Bob

PS Weather forecast looking great

[Frank]

Hi Bob,

Yes I'll be there, Re the new starting sequence it's basically a rolling 5-4-1-start, so for start 3 set your watch on 5 minutes when 4 is displayed on the committee boat, or failing that, 4 minutes after the Flying 15 start or two after the Lasers.
Clear as mud !!!

[Robert]

Just a thought.

DON'T BE LATE.

One of the disadvantages of the new starting sequence is that it is not friendly to late starters. You have just 2 minutes to start after the class start.
If you arrive at the starting line more than 2 mins after the starting numeral (#3) you will get a dns.

I guess that you can not win them all......

Cheers

Bob

PS Weather forecast looking great

Er, as we are first off and the numerals change every minute, wouldn't our start numeral be 5? So we need to cross the start line before #7? Don't want to confuse anyone but I have been known to still be struggling with a drysuit during the briefing .

[Bob Carter]

Just a thought.

DON'T BE LATE.

One of the disadvantages of the new starting sequence is that it is not friendly to late starters. You have just 2 minutes to start after the class start.
If you arrive at the starting line more than 2 mins after the starting numeral (#3) you will get a dns.

I guess that you can not win them all......

Cheers

Bob

PS Weather forecast looking great

Er, as we are first off and the numerals change every minute, wouldn't our start numeral be 5? So we need to cross the start line before #7? Don't want to confuse anyone but I have been known to still be struggling with a drysuit during the briefing .

Hi Robert, Well spotted but you are wrong in your reasoning. As a special feature for Sunday we are not starting the count from 0 but we have introduced 2 extra numeral boards. All will become clear at the briefing
Cheers
Bob

[Robert]

Ze plot, she thickens methinks .

[Robert]

Hope you all had a great time. Sorry I couldn't make it after all - slight problem with D & V. With you in spirit. Please keep me up to date re: Carnac.

[Robin Boardman]

Thanks to all at Grafham for a great day's racing. Apologies for missing the prize giving - I was packing my boat up in the sunshine unaware of the time.

[Liam]

Well done to the two Pauls.

Great day's sailing.

[Bob Carter]

Hi Guys,

Thank you all for coming to our Grafham open. Here is a first report on the event.


http://www.yachtsandyachting.com/news/1 ... at-Grafham


A slightly longer version will be on this Sprint 15 website in due course

Cheers

Bob