Talk:Yacht racing
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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)
