I’m happy to see this site has developed a following. We had over 1,100 views yesterday and 737 people have already taken a peek today.
With an audience, of course, comes an obligation to perform and I have to say my sorries to “Sailor” and “J24Sailor,” who have been demanding rapid results from daily racing. We still haven’t got them up from Friday; nor has the Royal Nova Scotia Yacht Squadron, whose electronic printing gets modified for presentation on our Results page.
The reason as explained at the top of yesterday’s post is the large number of protests arising from yesterday’s racing. At 2130hrs last night the Jury posted the outcomes of six protests all of which will affect the Preliminary Results posted on the Regatta Bulletin Board. Given the late hour there has not been time to re-sort the results, although I anticipate the work is underway.
As noted, the protests involved four of the six leading boats in the regatta, including members of the top three. While I’m 99 per cent sure Johnny Whynacht’s position at the top will hold, bets are off from that point down the table. Protest decisions were posted on the Board next to the Preliminary Results last night and I am sure they are still there this morning. Sailors with aspirations to move up should have a look at the Board and assess the implications for their chances and their strategies for today. While I haven’t done the math, my guess is that there should be quite a contest for the top spots today.
As today’s northwest winds look promising and are certain to drive out any fog, expect the Race Committee to get down to business to get things settled.
Sounds like the racing is intense! Just a thought on the results… the j24 worlds just finished and they also had to deal with lots of protests but they still put up the results with a very clear notification that protests are pending. Same with the j22 NA. This is good in a way because it makes you go back to the website (double traffic) which is what your advertisers like
Keep up the good work.
Indeed it is. I am about to get down to a post on an amazing final day with what I understand to be a surprising result. Once again, we’ll have to wait for protests to clear but we’ll get it out ASAP.
No doubt you are very busy but is there anything standing in the way of posting provisional results? I assume you are using software that takes all the grunt work out of calculating results. That plus who was protesting whom under what rule would make extremely interesting news.
Maybe I shouldn’t reply to these. Pretty soon I’ll degenerate into one of these Internet quarrels in which I question your manhood (it is manhood right?) and you question my intellect, etc.
Truth is we get the results after the Squadron posts them and even now at the end of Day 3′s racing they haven’t posted Day 2 because the of protests and because the folks responsible have to races to run. We are going to post them when they are available and after we deal with more pressing responsibililties (e.g., prize giving). Glad we all care. Group hug. Over.