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[edit] VANDALISM of this page
Going to "Yacht racing," I found many of the paragraphs duplicated and attempted to delete the duplicates. But apparently at the same time some wiki-vandal was even increasing those duplicates.
I don't know how this person does it, but this vandal made it appear that I made these changes not him/her. Hopefully in the near future, this vandal will stop their "work" and we can clean up this page.
[edit] Race duration
A race usually takes around one hundred minutes.
Actually, a race usually takes as long as it takes from my experience. It all depends on the wind and the number of races that are scheduled for a certain regatta. The fewer the planned races, the longer the courses. Regular big-boat weekend series races can be four hours long whereas collegiate dinghy races can be 18 minutes... I am taking the above statement out.
[edit] Info needed
Can we add any links to either online racing basics/tutorials or a link to the racing rules?
[edit] X metre classes
There seems to be a lack of consistency about the names used for these. The template Template:Keelboats worldwide uses names of the form 12 Metre (keelboat), but I found the 12-metres at 12-metre class. I didn't check to see if we already had articles for others that currently are red links in this template. Not sure what the right thing is, just making a note of the problem. Noel (talk) 00:52, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
[edit] First round-the-world
Am I right in thinking that the first round-the-world yacht race of any kind (crewed/single-handed, stopping/nonstop) was the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race? — Johan the Ghost seance 12:59, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
- Yes, I'm pretty sure that's true - pretty crazy that round-the-world racing was first done singlehanded and nonstop, huh? CDC (talk) 23:52, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
- That's exactly what I was thinking! But I can't think of any round-the-world race that wasn't inspired by the Golden Globe. See also Talk:Sunday Times Golden Globe Race. — Johan the Ghost seance 11:35, 12 February 2006 (UTC)
I've gone ahead and named the Golden Globe as first; all the present-day round-the-world races started after it. It would be good if someone could find a reference of some kind to back this up, though. — Johan the Ghost seance 23:18, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Sailing re-organization effort
Take a minute to read the comments at Talk:Sailing#Re-write effort -- non how-to et seq. Some of us are working on re-organizing the sailing-related articles. See if you agree with our approach and give us some help. Mrees1997 19:40, 29 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Inshore Racing
How about differentiating Inshore racing ie. along coastlines, (not in protected water)from Offshore racing ie across open water, in much the same way as the sailing regs do? Harbour racing is often refered to as Club Racing, and in protected water, although I suppose all racing is sponsored by a club?Jagra 06:06, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
