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First Tacticat American Regatta

by Amando Estela 26 Aug 2007 09:54 BST 20 August 2007
20 seconds after the start of the first Tacticat American regatta © Amando Estela

Tacticat is an Internet environment where sailors of different countries and sailing classes meet to train tactics, virtually racing with each other. Tacticat is free, administered and maintained by sailors. Although races are open 24 hours a day every day of the year, every now and then special events are scheduled.

At 23:00 for Brits, a bit late, over 35 Tacticat sailors from countries around the world met up online to compete in the 1st weekly regatta hosted in USA servers. Sailors were located in the UK (5), Spain, France, Poland, Israel, Italy, Ireland, Iceland, and Australia, but mainly from USA and CAN.

The competitors lined up and started windward-leeward courses obeying all of the typical racing rules. There were eight races in four types of boats (Laser, Skiffs, Cats and big boats).

As usual too the starts were real crowded, lots of 360s as the system penalizes the slightest contact between two boats and sailors drive the boats hard, taking a lot of risks (the boats are virtual, so no repairs to do!).

Canadians and USA sailors got the best places in the final classification, we were sailing their virtual waters (the USA server is located at Dallas DataCenter).

Next week the weekly regatta will be hosted by our Oz and Kiwi sailors (Brisbane DataCenter), the time is still to be agreed upon but expect some strange time of day.

Results:
1st CAN_VanBee (CAN)
2nd Windvane (USA)
3rd geedub (USA)
4th zirimiri (ESP)
5th zenont (POL)
6th Rhodes (USA)
7th clivey (GBR)
8th viperdog (USA)
9th dunno (USA)
10th THEKID (USA)

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