Australian <strong>Finn</strong> sailors enjoying the conditions during Sail Melbourne <strong>2004</strong> Photos: Sport the Library/Sail Melbourne
Future events Over the horizon As another Olympiad beckons, <strong>Finn</strong> sailors are looking ahead with eager anticpation to some great events in 2005. This includes the first ever <strong>Finn</strong> Gold Cup in Russia – on waters near Moscow – and the Europeans in Kalmar. Meanwhile the Masters retutrn to the ever popular Bracciano. <strong>Finn</strong> Gold Cup: Dates: 4 to12 June. Acommodation will be available on the site. Coaches boats will be available. 100 <strong>Finn</strong>s are being provided by the organisers. A charter flight will operate from Hamburg to Moscow. More information will appear on www.finnclass.org and the event website as it becomes available. The event website is www.finngoldcup2005.ru (only in Russian at present, but will be in English soon.) Entries will to go through each National secretary, who will need to request all the places for their country to IFA no later than the 15th of March 2005. Progress Report on the Regatta Format for FGC 2005 The <strong>Finn</strong> Gold Cup 2005 is scheduled for Moscow, and due to the restricted size of the sailing water, it has been agreed that it is essential to sail the fleet of approximately 100 boats in groups. Nobody wants a system of selection races followed by a short series for Gold and Silver fleets, and at Corinne’s request, Bill Bell and Richard Hart have been considering better ways to run the races in groups. The <strong>Finn</strong> Masters do this by splitting the fleet into groups A, B, C and D, then racing AB, AC, AD etc throughout the regatta. A variation proposed to the AGM at La Rochelle was to use the group system as do the masters until the last day, when there would be a final shootout in Gold and Silver fleets. The AGM was not satisfied with this, and in particular wanted regrouping to be carried out on several occasions during the process. Bill and Richard went back to the drawing board, and Bill had a brain wave leading to a far simpler system that we think is better, and satisfies the requirements of AGM. At the start of the regatta, the top ten sailors would be seeded into ‘Odd’ and ‘Even’ groups according to their places in the ISAF rankings. Other sailors from each country would be placed into the Odd and Even groups alternately. The two groups would race separately until the final day. After each day’s racing, the overall places would be worked out as usual, using the low points system. The sailors would placed into Odd and Even groups for the next day, depending on their position in the overall points (with discard etc). For the final day, the groups would be arranged into Gold and Silver Fleets, based on their overall points. For the Gold Fleet, the points scored would be half the points scored in the group races, so that there would be not more than 0.5 point bonus on the last race result. Consider two top sailors each winning separate group races: they beat everybody else and get 1.0 points each. In the final they again beat everybody else and one of them gets 0.5 point, the other gets 1.0 point. On the final day, the Silver Fleet would also score in steps of 0.5 point, but a winner would have 0.5 more than the last of the Gold Fleet (if they all finished). In a 100 boat fleet, a Gold Fleet winner would score 0.5, the 50th could be on 25.0. A Silver Fleet winner would score 25.5. At the back, a sailor finishing last in a group race would score 50.0. If he then persevered to finish 50th (and last) in a Silver Fleet race, he would score 25.0 + 25.0 = 50.0 points. The details are still being worked out, but we are confident that we are getting to a system that is fair and workable, without spoiling the traditional <strong>Finn</strong> type of regatta where we are all in it together. <strong>Finn</strong> World Masters 2005 The <strong>Finn</strong> World Masters 2005 will be held in Bracciano, a lake located 40 km north of Rome in a nice country landscape. The organising yacht club, Amici Velici Vigna di Valle (AVVV) has already hosted the <strong>Finn</strong> Masters in 1985 and 1993 and is actively working on organising the 2005 event. The preliminary schedule for the championship is measurement: May 13-May 15 followed by the practice race on May 15 and the racing itself from May 16 to May 21 A web site is already active (www.avvv.it) and will be constantly updated with the Notice of Race, and all the information on accommodation, travel, etc. Another useful source of information is the <strong>Finn</strong> Masters class web site, available on line at www.finn-world-master.com.. 28
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