last week, on the waters of Lake Bracciano, was held the 2010 edition of "District Championship Laser "..
.. now .. I imagine that many of those who follow this column will know of Laser, and the rules, at least as far as I knew before the District .. But the week Last week (actually only 3 days) I happened to lend a hand in the water and taking care with the opportunity I was told 2-3 little things, which of course I understood in a biased and unreliable, and then be taken to benefit even more than usual ..
.. basically the only race "Laser" open Zonals are, in fact to participate in the District should be among the first 30 (I think ..) of RL .. the problem is that there are several RL .. that there are at least two: Zonal and National .. and I imagine that there are other supra-national, but have not had the courage, nor the clarity, to investigate ..
.. any way to participate in the District must be made well in RL .. Result: an event to 300 boats.
The cross, that the organization was dependent on the Bracciano Sailing Committee .. otherwise known as Co.Bra .. If the name sounds familiar is because the same issue of Working Committee of Lake Bracciano, which is organizing the " Bracciano Sailing Contest , otherwise known as BSC .. still not clear?
You know the National Snipe this spring in Bracciano, behold, it was "inside" the BSC , organized by Co.Bra ..
I go back to "District Laser : 300 athletes .. divided into Standard, Radial and 4.7 .. charts with divorced men / women (for the last two classes) ..
Moral of the story: a path of 9 boe (concentric trapezoids), line of departure and arrival times separate and different departures: Standard, and then others to follow, divided into fleets "yellow" and " Blue .. Headaches? .. nothing compared to that generated by the attempt to read the "instructions" ..
How was it?
An incredible show .. especially after the first lap, when the fleets, which tended to remain rather compact, began to cross in hard situations .. type fifty boats that had run the last leeward mark to go to the disengagement of slack, where bolinetta back to the pre-arrival, and at least as many, confused by the top 50, who was on that leeward mark had upwind again because they had yet to complete another lap on the stick .. the lake will still be seething!
Not to mention the arrivals, where they decided in the last tacking more often the top 5 ..
Note to heavy snipisti who read these lines: Radial Class in particular is full strategic of bow-snipe-perfect: 50kg, athletic, fierce and competitive .. the problem is that often they are maidens in their prime .. then the heavy-snipisti who read these lines, with jealous wife, can easily forget them .. 'Ste lines!
From the perspective of the organization .. Well?! Honour and respect to Co.Bra: Everest is a small to a committee created with the "Primavela" 3 years ago, and an organizational point of view has been an undisputed success.
Fundamental, as always, the logistics provided by the Air Force base in Vigna di Valle .. but without the work of Co.Bra behind, both on land and in water (So \u200b\u200bmany ways to look like an exercise support NATO), such an outcome unthinkable!
very educational from my point of view, the attitude of the Laser Class, especially when compared with the dynamics of the Snipe Class .. in other words, we (as Snipe Class), we expect a CEO SCIRA on paper can make good & bad weather but then, the evidence shows, quite rightly always an attitude .. conciliatory .. how to say this is asking, and please.
Laser class instead reverses the perspective: Force, and the Organizing Committee, roughly, adapts .. which is sacrosanct, since we are not talking about fifty snipe but of 300 athletes, with teams racing around, clubs, federal resources, etc. .. But a bit 'gets the impression!
How does a little ' impression that the "foreigner" , constituting "impractical place" , it is often deaf to the suggestions of those who knows the place and well .. dynamic that occurs in certain committees so that a Zonal Snipe insist on putting the racing over 500m from the shore when there is a breeze that does not even turn a match .. with the known results .. as well as in certain classes that claim to give the start to 12.30 (if not before), but then begin to pull up "intelligence on the ground", with brushes for 1 hour or 2 .. or to put down the gates for the platform: in a week, maybe one or two will be standing still enough to be worth as such, generally after the first round mismatch, if not before, and not ignorance, but if you pull down a hundred Calum abundant meters on a steep wall like a volcanic crater, you can not expect a different result.
Okay! Remains that the "Laser District" was a show .. with a little 'more than the ear tips of the premises would probably be able to do some more proof, and maybe looking a little' more stable, but they were made, however, evidence enough, then that's fine.
Final note: the podium was defined on the last day, taking the first 3 of each table and making a run at these .. match race!
Now, as those who follow this column know, the Olympic Committee is taking with the ISAF sailing because it makes it easier to discipline and immediate use for the "great" public .. not later than on the merits, as far as I'm concerned the wing, by its nature, is a specialist discipline very strongly, certainly something you can do .. but before doing so we would have to understand "what" we can do, or even what "not" can be do .. The fact is that the IOC contributes 65% of the annual ISAF .. therefore, the ISAF is trying to adapt, and probably is asking to adapt to all the National Federations, of course ..
.. I do not know if it depends on the media success (?) America's Cup, the fact is that more is more match racing is regarded as a kind of panacea .. and for the same sequencer as above it is likely that the same input is also arrived at the Laser Class ..
.. now .. match race I never practiced, I suspect it's funny, at least practice it, especially if you're at bat, because I see it, 99 out of 100, I do only the great sleep ..
.. do not deny that, with appropriate conditions, may be somewhat "attractive" for an amount much higher than that of the public affected or likely to receive a fleet race .. between these premises and there is certainly that needs to be done very close to the ground, perhaps at the public, obviously giving up the stability and regularity of the wind on the race course, at least a little boat 'spectacular, and with knowledge of the facts (but many ignore the rules of match racing is nothing in the Rules of Racing apply in the fleet racing .. and saw how few the RdR already know for the fleets ..)..
.. the match races that ended the Laser District, made with 2 instead of 3 boats, with technical competence (there were boats on board with hump), very close to the ground despite the wind irregolarissimo, however, has not been done next to the "public", if only to the "great", as it was pending before the Air Force base, which in itself is not accessible to outside visitors .. then the audience was made up of those outside the top three ranking of the penultimate day, which had not already left for home .. in other words, not just people who need to be "attracted" to sail with some technical media found ..
Actually, near the race course of the match race was the beach of Vigna di Valle, who on Sunday was the usual full as an egg, but it is unlikely that someone has noticed what was happening in front of the hook, Having regard to the barrage of boats that surrounded the path .. and certainly did not help the boat in question, a lovely, but definitely not quite adequate to 'I'm kind of racing ..
Ok! was a kind of "before" , perhaps "test" , that if it was made in front of the lakeside of Anguillara, or Treviso, perhaps with giant screen and speakers on the floor .. went well but the same: you can say without fear of contradiction that the fleet races are were spectacular!
So spectacular have been noticed that even the natives, also usually quite incredulous about the mere existence of "the lake" , let alone sail .. for the "general public" discuss this issue again next time, maybe when we organize something with Extreme40 .. no, Lake Bracciano is not too small, we run into the Thames, and then ..
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