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