Weymouth Speed Week 2010

Weymouth Speed Week 2010

Firstly a warm welcome to the many people who have recently joined the Weymouth Speed Week email news list and are looking forward to Weymouth Speed Week 2010.

The event will start on Saturday 16th October. Registration will open on the web site 60 days before this date.

Our plans to do all speed timing using GT31 GPS units are progressing. Patrick Van Hoof the fastest sailor at Weymouth Speed Week 2009 will be running the Belgian speed event in the South of France next week using GT31 GPS units. We will be visiting Patrick to learn from him and his team the logistics of using GPS timing. Also in attendance will be Manfred Fuchs the expert behind the software that calculates the results.

At Weymouth Speed Week 2010 we wish to record both wind speed and direction so that we can calculate for each run the speed to windspeed ratio and course angle to the wind.

We will provide you with further updates on the timing system and the standard of the equipment that you will need.

In the meantime we are busy organising the second national Sunrise Sunset event on May the 2nd in support of the charity born at Weymouth Speed Week 2008 - Windsurfing 4 Cancer Research.

Do support this worthy cause - visit www.W4CR.org to learn more, take part and help raise £50,000.

Good sailing!

The Weymouth Speed Week Team

Zitat von thommen

Da simmer wohl wieder mit bei denk ich

Bei mir steht es nicht fest, ob ich noch mal fahre. Kann sein, daß mir was dazwischen kommt. Aber schafft ihr ja auch ohne mich...

Also, die Entscheidung ist gefallen: Wir fahren!

Dunki kommt auch ziemlich sicher.

Markus und Obi wohl auch diesmal?

Rüdiger hat schon einen Bungalow gebucht.

Andy? Wie sieht es mit dir aus und Monty Spindler?

Meines Wissens ist am kommenden Montag der Anmeldestart...

Da sich niemand mehr gemeldet hat, habe ich soeben die Registrierung für uns vorgenommen. Diese 5 Startplätze sind fix und garantiert. Wer jetzt noch mit starten möchte, muß sich unter www.speedsailing.com selbst anmelden und wird auf die Warteliste gesetzt. Der oder diejenigen mögen sich bitte auch selbst um eine Unterkunft bemühen. Mehr als 120 Starter werden nicht zugelassen, es gibt immer eine umfangreiche Warteliste.
Berücksichtigt sind Dunki und Dunki sen., Rüdiger, Markus und ich.

Hier das erste Pressrelease:

Zitat von Weymouth Speedweek

Dakine Weymouth Speed Week 2010

The world famous Weymouth Speed week held on Portland Harbour the birthplace of speed sailing is looming up fast.

Starting on the 16th and finishing on the 22nd of October it is a very popular event with young and old, 1st timers to hardened old hands from back in the day It is the oldest running speed event on the planet and ask anyone who has been they will tell you the mix of fun, good competition and social crack makes people come back year after year.

As well as the usual great prizes from Simmer, Mistral, Spartan, Club Vass, and Dakine which are biased towards the armature and beginner groups there is always the great and the good to rub shoulders with. Signed up to come this year is the legendary Bjorn Dunkerbeck and Zara Davis the current women’s No 1.

The big change this year is the timing system which will be run solely using Navi GT31 GPS devices and software designed by Manfred Fuchs from Germany. Which will as long as you have turned them on and set them up right, will catch every run and at angles not possible in previous years. The course will be able to capture runs from a narrow 20 metre wide start gate accurately to 500m out from a 90 to 150 degree angle.

This type of course should suit all competitors from Boats that are fastest at a tight 90 degree angle to the kiters who can run at much broader speeds and every one in between.

So if the wind blows and they are due a good year, the harbour record set by Anders Bringdal in 2008 at 38.2 could fall. Not good news for Graeme Fuller from Dakine who underwrites the record, he could be writing one of those big cheques for $1000 dollars again. Pete Davis one of the organisers said “ We are very hopeful of breaking 40 knots this year with this new timing system its accuracy and flexibility will give the top flight competitors like Bjorn the best chance yet”

The entry list has opened and is filling extremely fast as usual so if you want to get in sign up fast! But even if you don’t get in the event is well worth going down to anyway just to soak up the atmosphere see the amazing boats and ogle at all the latest kit.

Bring your wetsuit as there is always loads of demo kit to try and Saturday night is the opening party sponsored by newly opened OTC centre and Windtek based in Weymouth who is promising us a night to remember.

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Hier die letzten News, nächste Woche geht es los:

Zitat von WSW

Weymouth Speed Week 2010

The event starts on Saturday 16th October and we look forward to 100+ competitors, including World Champions, Olympians, and National & World Record holders.

For competitors there is new information on the web site concerning the use of the GT31 GPS units and if you do want to buy a GT31 its not too late to get one. All entrants to Weymouth Speed Week have been offered a 10% discount by GPS-Speed.co.uk. Use your Speed Week payment receipt to confirm your entry and receive your discount.

The Event Guide is available on-line. Printed copies will be provided at registration.

Thanks to the generous support of Dakine all competitors will receive an event shirt featuring the fabulous GT31 inspired "Weymouth Speed Week goes all outer space" design created for us by natural design.

Check out how we will be producing the results and using wind data and read all about SSerpant!

Good sailing!

The Weymouth Speed Week Team

www.speedsailing.com

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Zitat von sonic

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