What is a regatta?
The regatta is a sailing competition, but first of all it should be noted that sailing is very diverse and mobilizes the most diverse areas of the personality of yachtsmen, in which you can show your abilities to the maximum. These are physical abilities, qualifications, the ability to work in a carriage. In particular, these areas of the yachtsman’s personality are manifested in the following specific areas:
- the ability to steer a yacht and the coherence of the crews;
- tactics and strategies of races used by athletes and taking into account the nuances of hydrometeorological and other conditions;
- constantly carried out improvements, modernization of yachts, their controls, equipment (first of all, the quality of the sails), allowing the yacht to develop the highest speed;
- knowledge and application of the rules of sailing races, the ability to “play on the nuances”;
- knowledge and ability to use the possibilities of increasing the speed of the yacht provided by the measurement rules (maximum relief of the yacht, polishing the underwater part, finishing the keel, measuring process, working with sails, etc.);
- literally the arts of using navigational equipment;
- finally, the involvement of designers in the creation of yachts. The fact is that cruising yachts can differ structurally, although they have the same theoretical dimensions, measurement control points and calculations. However, they can have different speed potentials. That is, using the same breakpoints, class rules, designers can create faster yachts.
Yachtsmen can use this sailing feature to win.
At the same time, by default, all the above-mentioned qualities of yachtsmen, (teams) and yachts are considered equally important.
A comprehensive assessment of the success of the riders is usually the time to cover the distance. It is divided into actual (true) or corrected sailing race distance. True time is the time from the announced start to the actual finish. Corrected time is the true time corrected for the yacht’s racing score and / or other adjustments.