Results from 6/19

Well, that was crazier than expected. That starting line was just all messed up. We're working on it.

Still a nice night to get in some racing. It was the longest night that we'll see for the year, so it seemed fitting to stay out and use up all the evening's surprises. The storms stayed comfortably to the north and the wind even came back up after an attempt to drop out.

Thanks to Bob and Sewell for stepping up last minute to help with mark boat. We needed it!

Remember to sign up for mark boat helper now:

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c0a48a4aa2caafc1-20182

We still need someone for next week.

Everyone should try to get in a week. If you took home an award last year, you should definitely be signing up for mark boat without my prompting. If you do mark boat, we give you an average score so it won't hurt you. And you should let others have a chance to come on first!

So how did everyone do? Not bad at all! Congratulations to John Jenkins and Rowan Perkins for a first place in the Star class. Coming in first in the A class was Willem Roosenburg and crew on Javelin and in B class it was the crew on Ful Dek. Awesome sailing everyone!

You can see all the results >here<

So several people asked about starts and general recalls.

Rule 26 talks about the starting sequence and how it should work. When you read it, you might notice that all the signals involve one sound. Rule 29.2 talks about general recalls and how that works. You might notice that the sound signal for a general recall is two sounds.

This "two sounds" is important. Two sounds mean that something unusual is happening. You might remember that a postponement also has two sounds. Even three sounds mean something special. This is by design. The designers of the rules wanted you to have audible queues about what is happening. One sound means normal things are happening in the sequence. More than one means something special is happening.

If you just started, then two sounds mean general recall. If you're in your sequence (like the PHRF classes were last night) then two sounds mean postponement. You can see how this would be confusing if we tried to continue the sequence for the PHRF classes (they just sounded two horns, so I thought we were in postponement). The rule makers knew this would be confusing, so that's why general recall means all clocks stop and we restart the recalled class.

Just part of the fun!