Nat did some race committee work at Big Daddy this year. Markset boat (eg the boat that places the windwark mark and in the case of this race; the offset...)
Again, please join me in saluting all these volunteers that allow all the racers to have fun...
[[posterous-content:pid___0]]Jennifer all bundled up for the cold wind. You don't get to move much on a race committee boat.[[posterous-content:pid___1]]Greg, our fearless captain[[posterous-content:pid___2]]This was the Race Committee boat, with the Principal Race Organizer (PRO) - this is where all the coordination for all the mark boats, crash boats, line boats, etc... gets done. Over VHF.[[posterous-content:pid___3]]Getting flags ready - everything in sailboat racing is done via visual signals[[posterous-content:pid___4]][[posterous-content:pid___5]] Which one will we pick for our offset? ;-)[[posterous-content:pid___6]]Encounter with the photo boat[[posterous-content:pid___7]][[posterous-content:pid___8]]With our proud work: the windwark mark which we carried all the way to the top of the course and anchored[[posterous-content:pid___9]]Getting some protection from the elements[[posterous-content:pid___10]]Doing a wind read with a compass. We put a flag up, read the direction the wind is coming from and relay that info to the PRO to see if they want to make any adjustment. Remember...start line needs to be square to the wind...[[posterous-content:pid___11]]There are some advantages in doing race committee...loads of downtime...
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