Reverse P course

[Judders]

Just had the SIs for the 2016 Impala Nationals in Brixham and we've been promised a 'Reverse P course' for one race.

I can't for the life of me think what that is?

Do I know it by another name?

A quick Google hasn't helped and the appendix to the SIs isn't out yet.

 

[Keen_Ed]

Probably: Long beat to port hand w/w mark, reach, p/h gybe mark, reach to pin (leave to s/board), run to p/h leeward mark/gate.

This is the Cowes clubs' reverse P. Never known it used, though.

 

[Judders]

Thanks.

In all my days, I don't recall ever having sailed one of those but it looks fair enough. All the facets of a triangle-sausage but in one lap.

 

[flaming]

Thanks.

In all my days, I don't recall ever having sailed one of those but it looks fair enough. All the facets of a triangle-sausage but in one lap.

Looks like only one opportunity to screw up the hoist and the drop!

 

[Mark Taylor]

The Reverse P course used in the RS dinghy fleets has 5 rounding marks plus the start/finish line.

Start line is approximately a third to half way up the windward beat.

From SL to Mark 1 (windward mark)........leave it to port and broad reach on starboard to Mark 2..........then dead downwind to Mark 3 (which is approximately half way back down the course) and is left to port................Mark 4 is left to starboard and you then run down wind to Mark 5, which is left to Port and you then go back up the windward leg to Mark 1.

Start/Finish line are on the axis of Mark 1 to Mark 5, passing through the line only on the beat

So you basically sail: Beat / Reach / Run / Reach / Run / Beat for each lap of the course.

I like the course.......lots of passing opportunities at the marks plus choices on the runs.......but it is a course that needs good mark laying and also better in steadier winds because options for race officer limited if the wind starts shifting!

Mark

 

[Mark Taylor]

Just looked at the SIs for the 2014 Sonata Nationals which were actually held at Brixham (venue for 2016 Impala nationals) and the Reverse P course they use looks like the one posted by Keen Ed, rather than the RS course I described above........it had two quite long broad reaches and a very short run at the bottom, so a premium on boat positioning and mark rounding on the last two buoys before starting the windward leg.