Good morning.

Some time ago, during the Cabo-Rio race I’ve made a chat comment for SOL OPS, precisely your point “1”, about the obvious need for having the (#3) 40Sereis boats Polars published in due time, i.e., before the Series start – and off course, especially for the SOL newcomers.

But not only the boats Polars are needed before the races.
The remaining courses paths should also have been published.
Am I seeing it wrong?

Your point 3 is a bit arguable. Just think a little more on it.

I wish you a good race, Bob.

João/psail

I wasn’t thinking about making live boat data available.
You and I agree on that point.

What I was trying to suggest was that polar and course data should be published by the Race Committee before the race(s).
My reasoning is this:

1) I already have the polars and the courses for the Q1 races because I have raced those courses and boats in prior years. I’m sure many other multi-year members have this information as well. But newcomers to SOL don’t have that information, and are thus at a disadvantage.

2) It should be the race committee that does the publishing. That makes it official [and copyright legal].

3) Although I did not say this in the original post, I think access to the polar and course data should be restricted to SOL members in-good-standing — that is, the skippers who have paid their dues.

But all this is really of no great import.
I love the concept of this series.
I’m sure this will be great sport!

I can almost agree with all you wrote about this SOL 40Series.
Now the “Making these data available to SOL skippers will make racing more interesting to skilled routers.” statement.

I would say: Not disclosing live boats data makes racing fairer and competitive.
You just need to look for the recent races outcomes.

The time for the Copy/Paste “routers” went with the shutdown in hmm’s data center.
I sincerely hope it keeps like that.

João/psail