Sailonline's Current Race Calendar

RainbowChaser

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Hi there

Sailonline is, I am sure, familiar to many of you, but few realise you can keep an eye on upcoming races by looking in Sailonline's (SOL's) Race Calendar forum here.

The Current Calendar is kept pretty up to date and usually extends about five weeks into the future. You can keep an eye on the races and colour-coding tells you what kind of race it will be. You can also see the boat type to be sailed and the distance involved.

Closer to race time, there may be information posted on SOL's homepage, and then the Race Description itself will appear on the RH side of the homepage. The Race Description is brief but always includes a link to the boat polar and to the course.

Before a race opens on the homepage, it is always possible to preview it by logging in as the sol boat, using the following credentials:

Username: sol
Password: sol

Having just had a brilliant race around the Isle of Wight and successfully buddied with Fjordsailing for this year's Lerwick to Bergen Shetland Race, SOLers are now practising a giant-catamaran sprint round the lighthouses of France's NW coast and the first in this year's series of Tall Ships Races in a 90m Barque (SOL is partnered with Sail Training International for these races) while waiting in the wings is a classic race from this year's Warnemunde Woche.

Hope to see some of you in SOL!

P.S. If any ybw-ers have specific races that they would like to see SOL run, or belong to an offshore sailing club that would like to have a (non-commercia)l buddy to run a virtual replica of one of their races, just say so in SOL! :)
 
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Hello Rainbowchaser.

I am trying really hard not to get stuck into another race. However the tall ships looks very inviting!

Possibly a bit premature, but can you do the Jester challenges. Preferably a few boat options - Corribee; Contessa 26; Westerly Centaur - that sort of thing.
 

Martin_J

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Having just SOL'd around the world.. I am just trying hard to resist even looking at the race calendar... Tall ships.. even more tempting :)
 

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Jester Challenges

Pye-end - to run a virtual version of a race by its official name, Sailonline needs to have permission of the official organisers and then we "buddy up" and you will see the official logo on the homepage etc. Once we have that permission we then need to check what boats are entered and see if we have a polar for a relevant type. If not, then we have to try and find one!

Have a look at the list of boats in the Sailonline Boathouse and let me know if anything there would be appropriate for Jester?

Do you by any chance have any contact with the Jester Challenge organisers? If not I am sure I could track someone down from here .

Thanks for the idea!
 

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RB - Great. I will be there at the start line in that case, but won't need to leave the comfort of the house.

The next one will be 2014, so plenty of time to prepare, unless they or you think it interesting enough to run an annual race at the end of May, just to practice.

The Twister would be my boat of choice. Always wanted to sail one. Perhaps the Albin also. A smaller one for the purists might be intersting if you happen to come across the curves.

The contacts on the website are proably as good a place to start.
 

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Hey thanks for providing the calender but unfortunately i left all types of racing and now i don't want to indulge in any form of racing .
 
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