Do you know if there will be racing for sure on Friday? If there is only going to be racing IF the wind is deemed good (say 10 or more), I don't know that I would make an effort to be there in time to race on Friday. That said, I don't know that Friday course racing (or Sunday racing for that matter) should count for MOWIND points. If the course racing will be run regardless of conditions as in other MOWIND events (except absolute zero wind), then I think it should count for MOWIND points.
Furthermore, most people show up for the crossing, and only do the crossing (like last year with 40ish doing the crossing and only 9 doing course racing), so I'm not sure that the course race points should be based on the total entrants for the crossing. Maybe the course race points can be based on the number of starters for the largest course race of the day. So if 22 people start the first race, with people slowly dropping out for whatever reason throughout the day and the last race has only 13 people start, all course races would still count as having 22 entrants, as opposed to 40-50 that may have registered for the crossing.
This is just my opinion and some of my concerns to make sure we don't end up "gaming" some of the season scoring rules at a regatta. Please respond with any feedback and I am happy to go along with whatever the consensus is. Finally, I think it is great that Jack is letting us know that this will likely be a high point value event ahead of time so that we can draw a good fleet to the event. I am all for anything that gets more people to the events.
Later,
Arden
----- Original Message ---- From: Jack <drjacksonwiley@...> To: mowind@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, September 10, 2007 10:28:43 AM Subject: [mowind] Mille Lacs Crossing 2007
This is the word so far on the Mille Lacs Crossing 2007. I will post the notice of race as soon as I get it. You can check fleet8.com as well.
Racing will be Sept 28-30. There will course/slalom racing on Friday and Sunday. The Crossing will be held on Saturday unless weather looks better for Sunday. Being the end of September you can expect any kind of weather, so come prepared for hot or cold.
Mowind points will be scored for all of the races unless there is a good reason not to. This is your warning that it could be the highest scoring race of the season.
Last year the course racing was not counted, only the crossing. Those that did race on Sunday last year added 100-200 points to their crossing score with only four additional races.
Last year 41 people signed up for the crossing and 9 stayed on Sunday for the course racing.
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