Hi Dan:

In response to your post:

1) On number of regattas, for 2009, I agree 10 to 14 regattas is a lot of racing. What I meant to infer for the Fun/LD Series only is on average one regatta a month for ten months. So for the Fun/LD series that translates to ten races (there abouts, maybe eleven) as most regattas are just a single race. Pacing the F/LD series at one regatta (race) a month is meant to make the race schedule easy to administer, and to encourage Bouy Series racer's attendance at F/LD events in between that busy series race schedule.

Specific to Bouy Series in particular. I think chosing the number of regattas to attend, knowing Bouy Series includes many more individual races, is up to the sailors interested that series. Do you have any proposals here? Any other Bouy Racer's want to chime in?

2) In response to your post on e27 scoring system vs. low point. Environmentally the current scoring method for the F/LD series, consistently demonstrates that a boat can win the series by sailing the minimum (four this year) most attended F/LD events. And this has been true since the F/LD seriies started. This is the annomalous worm hole I'd like to regulate against. So, I've proposed a low point scoring system for F/LD only as one strategy to close this jump gate. Closing the possibility of winning the series by attending a fraction of the most frequented races is meant to incent participation across the series; to provide a 'level and equitable' playing field which encourages whole series participation. In my opinion its not a level and equitable series if you can chose a few well attended events and walk away with the series.

What Bouy Series does for scoring system I leave to those interested in Bouy Series. For F/LD Series I'd like to see steady racer participation across the series, building over the years, which for me means closing the ammomalous worm hole embedded into the current scoring system for F/LD series.

I think consistency between the two series does not matter so long as each series strategy for encouraging participatition; the scoring system being one method, works for that series. Any ideas?

3) On on line survey to chose races. I'd be happy to develop an on-line survey but have never done that before with any web tools. Let me know how we can move forward because its a good idea. My hope was that people would just start chiming in as you have . . . and we'd sort it out over the next month.

So everyone please chime in.

mb

:: Mike,
::
:: Thanks for putting this together, there are a lot of
:: options to consider. My thoughts are
::
:: 1) 10 to 14 races are too many. For the last 2 years I
:: think we included 8 races in the schedule and that
:: seemed to work well.
::
:: 2) Can you explain how a low point scoring system
:: provides equity and encourages series participation?
:: Personally, I like the current scoring system and think
:: we should be consistent between the buoy series and the
:: F/LD series.
::
:: 3) Can you set up an online survey so the fleet can vote
:: on how many races to do and which races to include in
:: the schedule?
::
:: Thanks again for your efforts.
::
:: Dan