http://solfans.org/blog/sailing-by-the-numbers/hop-to-la-rochelle-2/ fans of sailonline.org Fri, 18 Aug 2017 11:09:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.34 http://solfans.org/blog/sailing-by-the-numbers/hop-to-la-rochelle-2/#comment-101 Thu, 05 Mar 2015 14:33:15 +0000 http://solfans.org/?p=587#comment-101 I too noticed that the Delphia 47’s Polar had alot of personality so to speak, which will contribute to more tactical decisions being required of the skippers during this race. This is a good thing. In fact I am of the opinion that some of our other boats have polars which gloss over some of these transition zones. Since route selection is the crux of matter for our competitive forays tactical dilemmas are all we have to make these races more interesting. I was going to post something along these lines in the forum but your blog here beat me to the punch. What I am suggesting, just to be clear, is that most of the polars that we have at our disposal could benefit from a re-examination to yield a less homogenized rendering toward these ends. I am not sure that this point of view would be well received but I feel it is worth discussing.

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