Alan
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lol
On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:39:37 GMT, "Alan"
>Alan
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>Windsurfing Club: http://SportToday.org/
>> The United States Windsurfing Association (US Windsurfing)announced
>> today that the term "port" will become the direction of right of way
>> for all of its Nationally sanctioned races "because it's easier to yell
>> "PORT" instead of "starboard" " declared Nat Siddall, Executive
>> Director of US Windsurfing. He denied that there was any involvement
>> from Mistral or Neil Pryde in making this decision. "For years we have
>> been deluged with letters and emails from racers who want faster
>> warnings and quicker response times on the course. Two syllable
>> warnings take twice as long to announce and perceive so we are going
>> with the shorter term."
>> Defenders of retaining the "starboard" term maintain that certain
>> board manufacturers resent the "free advertising" that Starboard is
>> getting from sailors in their casual- or e***d- references to that
>> right hand forward direction. KISS, or Keep It Starboard-Stupid,
>> alledges that even Neil Pryde- the company that will be making the new
>> Olympic board-is feeling the effects when naive sailors yell
>> "starboard" on the approach of their new race board.
>> Siddall, despite sailing a Mistral, maintains that the
>> organization's decision is influenced by our modern society and its
>> instant messaging mentality. He cites tests on the water that
>> demostrate that a sailor can tack off in 33% of the time when they hear
>> "port" as compared to hearing "starboard". Siddall continues" if it
>> takes only one third of the time to react to "port" and you can see
>> that it takes half as long to say "port", then it is obvious that right
>> of way on a race course can be maintained in less time than you can say
>> "Do a 720.""
>> Many proponents of the change to port rule are former British
>> sailors who welcome this left hand prominance to their sailing sport.
>> American sailors who have been testing this switch are comfortable with
>> its ease of use and think that it will go beyond the race course and
>> help define right of way issues in all sailing venues. Siddall agrees,
>> and is looking into other single syllable solutions to make windsurfing
>> more user friendly.
US Sailing carried on a two-year study only to see determinative data
leaving no room for any other conclusion, though to its surprise, this
hailing technique works best in the northern hemisphere. Study data suggest
this phenomenon relates to the Corrialis Effect, in a way similar to the
variable swishing of toilet water in each hemisphere.
-Dan
> lol
> On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 15:39:37 GMT, "Alan"
>>Happy April Fools, Marc!
>>Alan
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>>Windsurfing Club: http://SportToday.org/
>>> The United States Windsurfing Association (US Windsurfing)announced
>>> today that the term "port" will become the direction of right of way
>>> for all of its Nationally sanctioned races "because it's easier to yell
>>> "PORT" instead of "starboard" " declared Nat Siddall, Executive
>>> Director of US Windsurfing. He denied that there was any involvement
>>> from Mistral or Neil Pryde in making this decision. "For years we have
>>> been deluged with letters and emails from racers who want faster
>>> warnings and quicker response times on the course. Two syllable
>>> warnings take twice as long to announce and perceive so we are going
>>> with the shorter term."
>>> Defenders of retaining the "starboard" term maintain that certain
>>> board manufacturers resent the "free advertising" that Starboard is
>>> getting from sailors in their casual- or e***d- references to that
>>> right hand forward direction. KISS, or Keep It Starboard-Stupid,
>>> alledges that even Neil Pryde- the company that will be making the new
>>> Olympic board-is feeling the effects when naive sailors yell
>>> "starboard" on the approach of their new race board.
>>> Siddall, despite sailing a Mistral, maintains that the
>>> organization's decision is influenced by our modern society and its
>>> instant messaging mentality. He cites tests on the water that
>>> demostrate that a sailor can tack off in 33% of the time when they hear
>>> "port" as compared to hearing "starboard". Siddall continues" if it
>>> takes only one third of the time to react to "port" and you can see
>>> that it takes half as long to say "port", then it is obvious that right
>>> of way on a race course can be maintained in less time than you can say
>>> "Do a 720.""
>>> Many proponents of the change to port rule are former British
>>> sailors who welcome this left hand prominance to their sailing sport.
>>> American sailors who have been testing this switch are comfortable with
>>> its ease of use and think that it will go beyond the race course and
>>> help define right of way issues in all sailing venues. Siddall agrees,
>>> and is looking into other single syllable solutions to make windsurfing
>>> more user friendly.
-Dan
Alan
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Windsurfing Club: http://www.ibscc.org
> -Dan
> > could we make that "Coriolis" the next time around? Just for the
> > purists, of course.
> Alan
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> Windsurfing Club: http://www.ibscc.org
By the way, the Gear Demo in Baltimore was cold and windy. I got
plastered on my 5.3 but I was smiling all the while)
We had a 4.5 Saturday down here. I missed Sunday, but I'm sure it was good.
Let's hope this low system was part of a pattern.
Regards,
Alan
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