Boards Magazine British GPS Speed Ladder 2011
Notice of Race
We are very pleased
to announce the British GPS Speed Ladder sponsored by Boards Magazine. The
event will start from the 16th of October 2010 which is the beginning
of Weymouth Speed Week and run until the end of Weymouth Speed Week in October
2011.
You can view your ranking on www.gps-speedsurfing.com and the Boards Web site
www.boards.co.uk this will rank the fastest in the UK, for that year. Based
only on sessions from UK waters. There will be an annual trophy and prizes. So
at any windy day you can set out with your GPS at your favourite speed spot,
which could be on the sea or your local lake and set your own personal record.
Then see how you did against the rest of the UK. The prizes will be drawn
randomly at the end of the year out of ALL posts submitted. So the more times
you post a speed the better chance you have of winning.
To register for the Event:
http://www.gps-speedsurfing.com/mygps.aspx?mnu=events&mnu2=eventadd&eventid=190
Boards Speed Forum
To
help promote the British ladder there will be a heading on Boards forum for
Speed Sailing. There you can suggest a day or place that you think would be
good to get a great speed and hook up with other speed freaks. This way you can
log in and check if anyone else is up for a session on a speed strip and with a
given venue with the right wind conditions to set the highest speeds who knows
what you could achieve? The top sites include premier spots such as West Kirby,
The Ray Southend, Weymouth and Daymer Bay. But any venue will be included if
the competitors want it. Flat speed sailing conditions are great but not
imperative. 40 knot averages are nice but 30 knot averages are just as
impressive in choppy conditions at your local lake. This is hopefully a system
that will give great wind conditions for your sessions.
Rules
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timing equipment is not used at these events. Only hand held gps
units are used. This enables sessions be made at very short notice. The rules are based on the rules
dictated by gps-speedsurfing. An average of the best five ten second times will
give the speed for each sailor.
The main
unit used is the Navi GT31 (£130 approximately with a memory card and Aquapack).
www.gps-speed.co.uk is a preferred supplier
and very competitively priced. But other older units like the Garmin Foretrex
and Geko are still acceptable but are not as accurate and do not have the
Doppler system. Top riders are advised to use a Navi as a small speed deduction
can be applied for units that do not have Doppler system.
Depending
on the GPS unit interval must be set to one or two seconds (Garmins). The GPS
tracks are up-loaded to a computer and speeds are calculated on gps software
such as gps action replay or GPS Results (free for 30 days then 29 Euros)
Downloadable from the website www.gps-speed.com ). Each competitor will
then post his or her time (via the auto feature in the software) on
gps-speedsurfing and clicking British Speed Championship as the event. (The
event can be added under My GPS, My Equipment).
The
results will then automatically appear on the gps speedsurfing forum page and the
British only results page.
Registration
on www.gps-speedsurfing.com and the event is for
free, but it is suggested to be become a Gold Member where you will have extra
features available and support the website.
Windsurfing Equipment
Any equipment is allowed. It's not only speed boards that are quick. A wave
board attained an average of 40 knots at Sandy Point in Australia. So speed or
slalom boards are not a must.
There has never
been a better time to try out your speed skills, gain some bragging rights over
your mates and win some great prizes.