• Best Scoring System to Select Champion Boat from multiple Divisions
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  John Allan Yesterday 18:02
• "Rules Governing the Duration of Flag D Display Ashore Before Start"
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  Tiziano Menconi Yesterday 12:07
• Consequences of an OA Breaking RRS 89.1 and Interaction of RRS 75
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  Angelo Guarino Fri 12:14
• Is it a gate mark if the next leg is a reach?
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  Al Sargent Thu 04:17
• Protest Time Limit for a Day without Racing
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  Angelo Guarino 25-Sep-09 14:13

• Best Scoring System to Select Champion Boat from multiple Divisions
  We use high-point scoring (see sailingscuttlebutt.com article) to evaluate the top competitor among multiple fleets and among intermittent fleets over long series.  The basic logic of high-point scoring is: the best boat is the one that has beaten the most boats.
  
  

  We host a Wednesday evening summer series of about 26 races of three fleets having about 10 to 15 boats each, typically totaling about 40 competitors over the season.  But our typical race has only about 25 competitors, meaning only about two-thirds of entrants race regularly. Many entrants race intermittently, and very few race in every race.
  
  

  How would a boat that only raced in 13 races and won every one be ranked against another boat that raced in 20 races, won a few and recorded many seconds and thirds.  If the fleet averaged 10 competitors per race, the first boat's high-point score is 130 (13 firsts * 10 boats beaten/race).  If the second boat averaged third place in 20 races her series score would be 160 (20 races * 8 boats beaten), and she would rank higher than the other.
  
  
  Dennis Dyer Today 00:01
• Simplified 18, 19 & 20 for club racing?
  So, Sydney is a bit OCD and incapable of dealing with change.
  It could be similarly argued that Melbourne is a bit ADHD.
  David Taylor Yesterday 23:59
• "Rules Governing the Duration of Flag D Display Ashore Before Start"
  Angelo,
  
  No, not appendices any more.
  
  See Mark's response.
  
  NOR/SI Guides are at WS>Inside WS>Race Officials>IJ>IJ Resource Centre>Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions Guides
  or
  WS>Race Officials>IRO>IRO Resource Centre>IRO Resource Library>Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions Guides
  or
  WS>Race Officials>Race Officials Resource Centre>Notice of Race and Sailing Instructions Guides.
  
  AIUI, a WS document identified as an Appendix, for example Appendix UF, is treated as an Appendix to the RRS and takes precedence over any conflicting rules in Parts 1 to 7 and the Definitions of the RRS (RRS Introduction, Appendices).  So, if it is in an 'Appendix' it can change a RRS that NOR/SI otherwise can't change under RRS 86.1
  John Allan Yesterday 22:35
• Consequences of an OA Breaking RRS 89.1 and Interaction of RRS 75
  Union Cycliste Internationale: cycling. 
  Tim O'Connor Sun 18:10
• Is it a gate mark if the next leg is a reach?
  A gate is two marks between which the boat must sail in the direction of the next mark or finish, even if one of the gate marks has in effect to be rounded.  If the OA doesn't care about the final passage through 3p/3s, the rounding order listing should state that 3p is the rounding mark at the end of the last downwind leg, rather than 3p/3s.
  Tom Shenstone Fri 16:02

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