RTIR Dodgers

[Lucky Duck]

This year's itinery has a trip round this Isle if Wight pencilled in for the 30th June.

The sailing instructions on the ISC website states that dodgers displaying the boat's sail number are required (although there is a photo of a boat's crew holding what appears to be a plank of wood with the sail number written on it), a quick search on the web reveals one not particularly cheap supplier.

Are there any others suppliers around, or might it be better speaking to my tame sailmaker to see if he can do them for less?

 

[AIDY]

ocean world... or do as me make your own.... quite easy with a printer to get the letters / numbers to look right.

I have sail number's and just get the crew to hold the dodger up on one side of the boat (dependant on what finish line your on) when you cross the line

 

[Habebty]

Easy to make your own. Go to local sail maker get some lightweight white Dacron off cuts and some black spinnaker tape for the numbers. Get some of those brass eyelets (about a dozen for both sides) and tie to guardrails. If like me you are told to add an X to your number by the ISC as it is a duplicate number with another racer then do t forget to add an X to your mainsail as well with the spinnaker tape.

 

[DanTribe]

I thought this was going to be about some cheats finding a short cut

 

[paul.norton]

Try http://www.easierprint-trade.co.uk/category/pvc-banners.aspx. They are cheap, have eyelets and you can have them in any colour

 

[prv]

If its only for the one race, I'd have thought any handy fabric and a pot of paint would do the job.

Pete

 

[farmerdan79]

If its only for the one race, I'd have thought any handy fabric and a pot of paint would do the job.

Pete

+1, accept I have substituted the paint brush for a jumbo magic marker...

 

[wiggy]

I've done 8 RTIR's and have never bothered with the dodgers.

 

[Lucky Duck]

I've done 8 RTIR's and have never bothered with the dodgers.

Its changed this year, from thier website (http://www.roundtheisland.org.uk/web/code/php/main_c.php?map=rir12a&ui=rir4&style=std&override=&section=competitors&page=nor);

Please also note that this year we require all boats display a sail number dodger (see Notice of Race 6.13).

The easier print crowd look a good bet rather than paying £40 a side from Ocean world

 

[Scotty_Tradewind]

I had some made up for my first race and discovered that the huge majority of boats didn't show one.

 

[prv]

I'm not a racer, but I can't figure out why they want you to display a number on dodgers which is already on your sail. Do they really have that many dismastings?

Pete

 

[rotrax]

If its only for the one race, I'd have thought any handy fabric and a pot of paint would do the job.

Pete

Thats what we did.

 

[Bosun Higgs]

Unless you anticipate being up amongst the silverware, what does it matter whether or not they can identify you and post a result? You will know where you finished.

 

[flaming]

Unless you anticipate being up amongst the silverware, what does it matter whether or not they can identify you and post a result? You will know where you finished.

Unless you anticipate being up amongst the silverware, what does obeying any of the rules matter? Just fire up the engine and go for it!

More seriously the requirement for dodgers is so that in the event of a downwind start or finish the race committee can see your number when your main would be let out at an angle, and so difficult to read. Anyone who's ever finished in a busy time during the RT must surely appreciate that they already have an extremely difficult job - without "doesn't apply to me" types making it even harder just for the sake of an evening's art and craft or a few beer tokens to Ocean World.

 

[Talulah]

Unless you anticipate being up amongst the silverware, what does obeying any of the rules matter? Just fire up the engine and go for it!

Why does even entering matter? £75!

 

[flaming]

Why does even entering matter? £75!

Well exactly. If you're going to enter, why would you only obey some of the rules? If you can't/won't obey the NOR and the SIs, let alone the RRS, then why enter a race?

 

[Talulah]

More seriously the requirement for dodgers is so that in the event of a downwind start or finish the race committee can see your number when your main would be let out at an angle, and so difficult to read. Anyone who's ever finished in a busy time during the RT must surely appreciate that they already have an extremely difficult job - without "doesn't apply to me" types making it even harder just for the sake of an evening's art and craft or a few beer tokens to Ocean World.

Are you sure about this? There may be another reason!
Following last years carnage some of the boats were not easily identified. It took a while to match the stem head fitting from one boat found in another boats galley.
Perhaps the dodgers will aid in the identity of both victim and offender?

Putting emotions aside a quick risk assessment/analysis tells me that everyone must be pulling the blinkers over their eyes in HL fashion.

 

[flaming]

Are you sure about this? There may be another reason!

This requirement has been in force for as long as I've been doing the race, and dodgers are only required to be displayed at the start and finish on the side facing the committee. So yes, I'm pretty sure that's the reason!

 

[Talulah]

This requirement has been in force for as long as I've been doing the race, and dodgers are only required to be displayed at the start and finish on the side facing the committee. So yes, I'm pretty sure that's the reason!

But perhaps this now explains the emphasis

 

[Seajet]

I've been around the island on a casual basis at different times, and to be honest it's pretty boring.

However I can well do without the adrenalin rush of being T-boned by some sponsored prats with highlights in their hair, all called 'Jamie'...I wonder if there's a case for a more Corinthian, amateur race on a different date ?