RYA Tactics
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Personally signed by the author
RYA Tactics by Mark Rushall sheds a new light on the complexities of sailboat racing. No other sport requires the combination of so many elements – preparation, strategy, speed, tuning and most importantly tactics. However, it’s good tactics which can so often be that elusive missing skill.
As one of the sports top tacticians and coaches, and 2006 RYA Squad Coach of the Year, Mark’s book will help you sail better and improve your results. With easy to follow and logical diagrams, this book breaks new ground in presenting this essential and complex element of our sport.
“Covering almost every conceivable tactical situation, the book is a real tour de force by Rushall….yet comprises one of the easiest to read tactical situation books we have come across.” The Daily Sail, 1 May 07
“This book has come about from years of sailing and coaching at the highest level by an extremely analytical person. Mark …. is one of those annoying people who learnt from every sailing / coaching experience and has built an extensive memory bank of tactical scenarios and understanding.”
Chips Howarth, Fireball World Champion 2005
Tactics is the most comprehensive and accessible guide to racing yet. Providing an awesome and unique insight of sailboat tactics, it breaks down the race to tell you exactly what to think about, how and when to do it, and most importantly, why you should be doing it! No matter what your level of racing experience, you’ll have something to learn from Mark Rushall….”
Georgie Corlett, Editor, Dinghy Sailing Magazine
Start your 2008 season ready prepared and don’t go afloat without having read RYA Tactics.
Order your personally signed copy from www.rushall.net or for UK delivery send a cheque for £16 including P&P to:
Mark Rushall Tactics
Watermark Offices, 8 Lumley Gardens, Lumley Road, Emsworth, Hants, PO10 8AG, UK
International orders – please email tactics@rushall.net and postage rates will be advised.
Also available from www.rya.org.uk and most leading chandleries and book stores.
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Great for those new to learn to sail holidays, Level 1 provides a comprehensive introduction to dinghy sailing. It is designed to get you on the water using modern, single-handed dinghies and requires no previous experience.
The course covers a wide variety of skills to enable you to sail confidently such as; wind awareness, rigging basics, knots and sailing theory.
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Level 2 aims to fine-tune the skills and boat handling manoeuvres learnt at Level 1. The course sets out the foundations of sailing with the aim of producing competent light wind sailors who are able to sail and make informed decisions in good conditions.
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Day Sailing
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Finikounda is the main place to go for day sailing.
Sailing with Spinnakers
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Try Porto Heli for a fantastic destination for a sailing holiday with tuition.
Start Racing
You will learn to race a variety of craft from single handers to performance boats. The aim is to gain a good understanding of the rules and techniques of racing, including the course and starting sequence, boat preparation, tactics and racing rules.
Performance Sailing
This is an advanced course for experienced sailors using high performance craft and covers a range of sessions including rigging, tuning, teamwork, trapezing, hiking, tacking and downwind sailing.
Porto Heli is the ideal place for performance sailing.
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Laser 1
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Laser 2000
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Laser 4000
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Dart 16
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Optimist
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RS Feva
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RS 200
An easy to sail dinghy that brings the excitement of asymmetric sailing to everybody, including lighter sailors and youngsters. Available in Porto Heli
RS 400
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As the morning sun peeps over your bow, your lead crew will join you for a chat about the day ahead, confirming the evening’s destination together with some great places to explore and idyllic lunch stops. Then as soon as everything’s ready, you’re free to slip your lines and set sail.
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Our flotilla holidays in Greece and Croatia flotilla holidays require varying levels of confidence and experience due to the different routes and wind conditions in each area. It is important you select the right area for your party to ensure your safety and enjoyment.
The minimum experience we require on a flotilla holiday is that at least two people aboard each yacht are aged 18 years or over and must have had several day's active experience in charge of a yacht.
If this level of experience cannot be satisfied a Stay and Sail holiday, coupled with an Introduction to Yachting or Brush Up training course should be completed
Skippered Charter
If you want to regain your confidence afloat or just share the beginning of your flotilla with a like-minded sailor then you can pre book a member of the Neilson yacht team to join you on a skippered charter. They will spend the day with you, sailing from one place to another before retiring to the lead boat in the evening, allowing your party the privacy to enjoy some time alone. This option is available for one to three days for a supplement of £100 per yacht per day.
Please note, this option is not suitable for beginners who should complete an Introduction to Yachting course.
Dinghy Sailing Equipment
When you go on a Neilson sailing holiday with tuition, every club is recognised as a RYA Training Centre. Each of our clubs is regularly inspected for standards of tuition, facilities and equipment and all must have qualified staff, suitable boats and adequate safety cover ensuring quality sailing tuition. Holidays with us will have you carving through the seas in no time!
We always include RYA tuition and courses in the cost of your holiday, whether you are a first timer aiming for your RYA Level 1 certificate, or an expert working on your performance sailing.
National Sailing Scheme
We work closely with the RYA in developing the National Sailing Scheme. This progressive approach to tuition provides a tried-and-tested way to learn to sail. Holidays shouldn’t feel like school, so we endeavour to make everything from your first taster to high performance race techniques, as much fun as possible!
Start Sailing - Level 1
Great for those new to learn to sail holidays, Level 1 provides a comprehensive introduction to dinghy sailing. It is designed to get you on the water using modern, single-handed dinghies and requires no previous experience.
The course covers a wide variety of skills to enable you to sail confidently such as; wind awareness, rigging basics, knots and sailing theory.
Start Sailing is available in all of our centres.
Basic Skills - Level 2
Level 2 aims to fine-tune the skills and boat handling manoeuvres learnt at Level 1. The course sets out the foundations of sailing with the aim of producing competent light wind sailors who are able to sail and make informed decisions in good conditions.
You can expect to learn more advanced techniques in a variety of craft including; rigging according to weather conditions, coming alongside a moored boat, capsize recovery and essential safety background.
Try Finikounda – Great for the progressing beginner. Holiday sailing at it’s best!
Seamanship Skills
Moving on from Basic Skills, the main focus of this course is fine-tuning skills already learnt and boat handling manoeuvres, whilst increasing your self-reliance and decision making skills.
Day Sailing
We are able to endorse most sections of this course, enabling competent sailors to confidently plan and execute a safe day cruise, aspects covered include pilotage, interpretation of charts and use of GPS.
Finikounda is the main place to go for day sailing.
Sailing with Spinnakers
Sailing with Spinnakers teaches you how to sail a dinghy rigged with an asymmetric or symmetric spinnaker and some trapezing.
Try Porto Heli for a fantastic destination for a sailing holiday with tuition.
Start Racing
You will learn to race a variety of craft from single handers to performance boats. The aim is to gain a good understanding of the rules and techniques of racing, including the course and starting sequence, boat preparation, tactics and racing rules.
Performance Sailing
This is an advanced course for experienced sailors using high performance craft and covers a range of sessions including rigging, tuning, teamwork, trapezing, hiking, tacking and downwind sailing.
Porto Heli is the ideal place for performance sailing.
Performance Profiling
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Rob Andrews shows you how to focus your training to improve your racing results.
For additional information, read Your Best Year Ever in the April 2003 issue of SailRacer
The Performance Profiling approach provides a structure for assessing which areas are most important to your sailing, and your relative strengths in the high priority areas. The aim is to break down your sailing in to all the relevant component parts, based on the level that you compete at and the type of boat that you sail.
In an ideal world we would break these down into the following areas:
- Equipment
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- General skills
- Target Areas
- Mental skills
- Others
So for instance the fitness demands on the club racing Laser sailor will be very different to the fitness demands on someone in the same class trying to do well at the National Championship. I personally feel that it is important for you to devise your own set of areas, as then it will fully reflect YOUR sailing. Even more important, if you sail in a team, is to include the entire crew in this process. This will ensure that you are all working towards common goals, and it will also throw up differences of opinion in the thoughts and perception of the crew. These need to be addressed and discussed as it is hard to work on boathandling skills if you do not have the commitment of the entire crew.
Once you have devised, and agreed, the content of each area, it is time to look at:
- The importance of each item, scored 1 -10 (where 10 is very important and 1 is low importance). Note this should be in relation to your goals.
- How your performance rates in each of the areas (scored on a 1-10 scale again)
During this process, you can again expect to have differences of opinion between crew members. It may appear time consuming, but I am afraid that this discussion is an imperative part of getting the most out of your Profile. The returns in crew cohesion and specific practice will give you a performance edge, and will be well worth the time initially spent on the Profile. Below is a sample profile for a dinghy, which will give you some idea of what to include in each area.
Now that you have a specific boat Profile, what information are we looking for? The areas that have been scored 7 -10 in importance are key to making fast improvements. Search for any of these areas where the boat performance score is seven or less. The lower the performance number, the bigger your potential gain on the race track.
Now that you have identified the specific elements that you need to work on, you just have to decide on the best way to deliver the improvement. Some of the gains will be boathandling related, some will need specific equipment, some may need extra studying or help and some may simply see you going down the gym as the fitness element may be holding you back.
Sample Performance Profile - modify to suit your goals and your class EQUIPMENT
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Foils |
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Jib |
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Spinnaker |
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Tuning No / settings |
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TECHNIQUE
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Starting |
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Acceleration |
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Mark rounding |
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Pressure boathandling |
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Tacking |
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Gybing |
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Spinnaker hoist |
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Waves - upwind |
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Waves � downwind |
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Running |
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Kinetics |
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STRATEGY / TACTICS
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Percentage Sailing |
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Covering |
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Boat on boat tactics |
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Reaching options |
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Running options |
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Rules |
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Compass / shift work |
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Current / tide work |
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GENERAL SKILLS
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Meteorology |
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Protest technique |
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Risk vs Reward balance |
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TARGET AREAS
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Weight |
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Diet |
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Fitness |
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Event preparation |
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Event analysis |
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MENTAL AREAS
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Confidence |
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Concentration |
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Goal setting |
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OTHERS Add your own extra areas
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score Importance and Your Performance on a scale of 1-10 (10 is high/good)
Henri Lloyd Dinghy & Sportsboat Collection 2008
Henri Lloyd used their intensive marine clothing industry knowledge whilst working alongside the world’s best dinghy and inshore racing sailors to produce a new Dinghy & Sportsboat Range which was launched in 2007, known as the Stealth Dinghy Collection.
This exclusive collection ranging from Rash Vests and Buoyancy Aids to Dry suits, was developed and designed alongside our range ambassadors Nick Rogers and Joe Glanfield and through Henri Lloyd’s association with Sportboats, including the Melges 24 and Laser SB3 classes. The knowledge gained through Henri Lloyd’s association with the America’s Cup has also been an invaluable contribution towards the technical development of this range.
Named Stealth, the products have been designed to give the wearer the extra edge needed while competing against other sailors in racing environments. Certain items within the range have been adapted with more technically advanced features to enhance the performance of the garment – creating the category Stealth Pro.
For 2008 the range has been extended to include a new Women’s Spray Top, Junior Dry Suit and a selection of Rash Vests.
The hero product within this range is the Women’s TP1 Stealth Smock. This product is a technical replica of the men’s version, but has been designed and tailored to fit the female figure. The smock is constructed from Henri Lloyd’s own technical TP1 fabric, which is 100% waterproof and windproof, it is also breathable and is also very lightweight, therefore easing movement around the boat. Additional features include Dartex cuffs and neck seal, fully adjustable neoprene waist band and a fast draining quick access front stow and sleeve pocket.
The Junior TP1 Stealth Dry Suit has exactly the same design, features and attention to detail as the adult’s version, but for 2008 both suits have been further developed and certain features have evolved. The neck and cuff seals have been upgraded to a 3mm neoprene to help with insulation and durability. The seals have been thermally bonded to the fabric therefore improving comfort and fit. The Dry Suit design also benefits from bat wing waist adjusters and internal braces for a more customised fit, whilst the seat and knee areas have been reinforced with 500D condura, reducing wear and increasing longevity.
Also new for 2008 are the Stealth Rash Vests. The contoured fit rash vests have been designed to give additional protection whilst on the water and have the benefit of being extremely quick drying. They can be worn with your hiking shorts or can help prevent chaffing and aid insulation when worn under a wetsuit. This 4 way super stretch top can also be worn over a buoyancy vest to close down loose straps and reduce friction. With a UPF factor of 30+ they will provide essential protection against the sun's harmful rays and are available in long, short sleeve, and women’s and junior sizes.
A collection of Henri Lloyd accessories required while dinghy sailing including gloves, balaclavas, hats and neck gaiters completes the range.
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Allen Brothers to Sponsor Mirror Nationwide Championships
Royal Corinthian YC, Burnham on Crouch
Allen Brothers, one of the leading names in the design and manufacture of sailboat fittings, is to sponsor the first event of the season in the UK Mirror Class Association’s Nationwide Series, the Eastern Championships this weekend at Burnham on Crouch.
Around 40 Mirror dinghies, the classic family sailing dinghy sailed by adults and juniors alike, are expected for the weekend’s racing hosted by the Royal Corinthian Yacht Club.
With 50 years of experience in the design and manufacturer of sailboat fittings Southminster-based Allen Brothers, recently took the move to market its Holt Allen product range under the Allen brand. Sponsorship of an event for one of the most popular and long established UK classes, the Mirror Class, established for 45 years, makes for good synergy between two well-established names in the sailing world.
The event sees a welcome return of the Mirror Class to Burnham on Crouch. The venue is no stranger to the class, which boasts over 70,000 boats worldwide. In 1963, the first ever Mirror National Championship was held on the river Crouch.
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Portsmouth Yardstick Scheme – what is it?
The PYS is set of guidelines and recommendations from the RYA to help clubs provide its members with fairer racing. It allows boats of difference types and performances to race together using some basic configuration denominators. Part of the recommendations published by the RYA include the Portsmouth Number list which gives allocates numbers to boats dependant on the amount of data received, which in turn gives clubs different levels of confidence when using those numbers. The scheme runs entirely on club data and without the club data the numbers published by the RYA become less meaningful.
Why have the RYA decided to launch a race results
In the past, the RYA have asked clubs to send in their data at the end of every year. The data captured is limited and often open to subjectivity and goes through little validation by the RYA before being used in the statistical number crunching. After a very detailed review of the PYS by the RYA, it was highlighted that the data been captured by the RYA was become less and less meaningful, which was being reflected in the declining amount of returns being received by the RYA.
By launching the RYA Race results website, in collaboration with Simon Lovesey and SailRacer, the RYA are starting to increase the accuracy and meaningfulness of the data being collected by going straight to the source; individual race results. By asking clubs to upload their race results, the RYA are getting raw race data. The raw race data is also being subjected to an analysis in accordance with the RYA guidelines, which again increases the accuracy of the data being returned.
In summary, the RYA hope to collect more data, which is more meaningful to clubs as well as nationally, and start to increase the sailing publics confidence in the system and the numbers published by the RYA.
Why does my club need to adjust numbers?
The PN list published by the RYA is a guidance list to clubs. The advice given by the RYA has always been such that if the Portsmouth Numbers as published do not work for your club, then that club SHOULD change those numbers to ensure fair racing. Any clubs should always be careful when changing numbers to make sure that they are not adjusting a single person (crew skill factor) rather than the performance of the boat. Also to make sure that any data that it bases that adjustment on is considered and fair. Ideally a club should not adjust numbers after only 2 races in similar conditions etc, as well as taking into account local factors such as tidal gates and depth issues.
IT is only by adjusting those numbers that a club will start to get more meaningful results from the website which can then in turn be put back into the club racing system.
Combining Classes
Ian,
I certainly havent seen any way of doing that anywhere and its annoyed me when Ive set up new series if I called a class something slightly different. Only way i rectified it was by going in to the manage results page and deleting all the ones with different names. You can figure out which races they are by going in to the class list and looking on the more section and seeing the graph with results. Then have to rename them all to the same as previously used in sailwave and reload. Works ok if a new series with one or two results and you catche them early enough but I could see that being a real problem if you have loads.
Glad you are finding the system to be better than the old one. We like it too and it has given our handicap races a real meaning now as I dont think our club did many accurate returns before.
ChrisDraycote Water Chris Gandy 2009-08-20 10:21:40
How do I import the race data?
I have re-created some of our race data into Sailwave, but even on the data import screen I cannot find how to import the Sailwave file. Also, I have put 2 race results into one file. Is this OK?
Roger
Mods to Suggested Handicaps Page
This week I have re-written the way the 'Suggested Handicaps' page works, fixing a problem that Chris G highlighted with data from multiple races on the same day.
You will also see that we are showing the number of boats each suggested handicap has been calculated from. This should help you understand the quality of the suggested handicap
Finally, you can now easily link through to the actual results from several links, including be able to click on the actual graph. This should help in understanding spikes in your suggested handicaps
Problem with Race Dates
Using Sailwave, I've combined all the results from every series (some 40 races) and purged any duplicates, etc. and uploaded the file via Sailwave to the site.
When I try to import each race file I get the 'Enter Race Date' message. No matter what I try it gets rejected. The error messages shows any date either entered or chosen from the Calendar as 1/12/2010 for example 1-DEC-2009=1/12/2010.
I've tried to confuse the transformation by a date combination that might give me 12/1/2010 but with no success.
The dates of the races do not matter, but each race does need manual changes before benchmarking.
How do I get around this??
Barry McGibbon
Lyme Regis Sailing Club
Incorrect Data - GIGO ?
I was intending to import all the race results for our club. I loaded a few but it then occured to me that I may be doing something which is causing PYS to spit out odd handicap information. Our club sails in two fleets, slow and fast, but the results are held in a single Sailwave file. Sailwave formats out the results for the two fleets so that they appear nicely separated on our web site. The slow and fast fleets often sail different courses so there is no correlation between the times recorded for each fleet.
Does PYS treat all the boats in a race as sailing the same course or does it "notice" the fleet information and treat them, in our case, as two separate sets of results and calculate the corrected and on a fleet basis ?
Kerry Stares
Deleting Uploaded Results
I successfully uploaded all the results of our March series using Sailwave 
- unfortunately I hadn't noticed there were 189 races registered in the Sailwave file!!!
I cannot see any way to remove the erroneous data - do I need to - will it be purged automatically in due course?
Ian
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In terms such as world map and world climate, ''world'' is used in the sense detached from human culture or civilization, referring to the planet Earth physically.
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The English language
English word '':wikt:world
world'' comes from the Old English ''weorold (-uld), weorld, worold (-uld, -eld)'', a compound of ''were
wer'' "man" and ''eld'' "age," which thus means roughly "Age of Man."<ref>[http://.com/61/roots/IE588.html ''American Heritage Dictionary'' ]</ref>
The Old English is a reflex of the Common Germanic ''*wira-aldiz'', also reflected in Old Saxon ''werold'', Old High German ''weralt'', Old Frisian ''warld'' and Old Norse ''verold'' (whence the Icelandic language
Icelandic ''wikt:en:veröld
veröld'').<ref>Orel, Vladimir (2003). ''A Handbook of Germanic Leiden: Brill. pg. 462. ISBN 90-04-.</ref>
The corresponding word in Latin is ''mundus'', literally "clean, elegant", itself a loan translation of Greek ''cosmos'' "orderly arrangement." While the Germanic word thus reflects a mythological notion of a "domain of Man" (compare Midgard), presumably as opposed to the divine sphere on the one hand and the chthonic sphere of the underworld on the other, the Greco-Latin term expresses a notion of creation myth
creation as an act of establishing order out of chaos (cosmogony)
chaos.
'World' distinguishes the entire planet or population from any particular country or region: ''world affairs'' pertain not just to one place but to the whole world, and ''world history'' is a field of history that examines events from a global (rather than a national or a regional) perspective. ''Earth'', on the other hand, refers to the planet as a physical entity, and distinguishes it from other planets and physical objects.
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ontological sense (see world disclosure). While clarifying the concept of world has arguably always been among the basic tasks of Western philosophy, this theme appears to have been raised explicitly only at the start of the twentieth century<ref>{{Cite book
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The traditional interpretation of Parmenides' work is that he argued that the every-day perception of reality of the physical world (as described in ''Parmenides#The_Way_of_Opinion_(doxa)
doxa'') is mistaken, and that the reality of the world is 'One Being' (as described in aletheia): an unchanging, ungenerated, indestructible whole.
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In his Allegory of the Cave, Plato distinguishes between forms and ideas and imagines two distinct worlds : the sensible world and the intelligible world.
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In Hegel's philosophy of history, the expression ''Weltgeschichte ist Weltgericht'' (World History is a tribunal that judges the World) is used to assert the view that History is what judges men, their actions and their opinions. Science is born from the desire to transform the World in relation to Man; its final end is technical application.
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''The World as Will and Representation'' is the central work of Arthur Schopenhauer.
Schopenhauer saw the human will as our one window to the world behind the representation; the Kantian thing-in-itself. He believed, therefore, that we could gain knowledge about the thing-in-itself, something Kant said was impossible, since the rest of the relationship between representation and thing-in-itself could be understood by analogy to the relationship between human will and human body.
;Wittgenstein
Two definitions that were both put forward in the 1920s, however, suggest the range of available opinion. "The world is everything that is the case," wrote Ludwig Wittgenstein in his influential ''Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus'', first published in 1922. This definition would serve as the basis of logical positivism, with its assumption that there is exactly one world, consisting of the totality of facts, regardless of the interpretations that individual people may make of them.
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Martin Heidegger, meanwhile, argued that "the surrounding world is different for each of us, and notwithstanding that we move about in a common world".<ref>Heidegger (1982), p. 164.</ref> The world, for Heidegger, was that into which we are always already "thrown" and with which we, as beings-in-the-world, must come to terms. His conception of "world disclosure" was most notably elaborated in his 1927 work ''Being and Time''.
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In response, Sigmund Freud proposed that we do not move about in a common world, but a common thought process. He believed that all the actions of a person are motivated by one thing: lust. This led to numerous theories about reactionary consciousness.
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enlightenment, and changes would be sought in what we could call the psychological realm.
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Although Hebrew and Greek words meaning "world" are used in Scripture with the normal variety of senses, many examples of its use in this particular sense can be found in the teachings of Jesus according to the Gospel of John, e.g. 7:7, 8:23, 12:25, 14:17, 15:18-19, 17:6-25, 18:36. For contrast, a relatively newer concept is Catholic imagination.
''Contemptus mundi'' is the name given to the recognition that the world, in all its vanity, is nothing more than a futile attempt to hide from God by stifling our desire for the good and the holy.<ref>[http://www.chastitysf.com/q_cm.htm Contemptus mundi]</ref> This view has been criticized as a "pastoral of fear" by modern historian Jean Delumeau.<ref>[http://www.ewtn.com/library/montfort/Handbook/Mission.htm Parish Missions]</ref>
During the Second Vatican Council, there was a novel attempt to develop a positive theological view of the World, which is illustrated by the pastoral optimism of the constitutions ''Gaudium et Spes'', ''Lumen Gentium'', ''Unitatis Redintegratio'' and ''Dignitatis Humanae''.
====Eastern Christianity====
In Eastern Christian monasticism or asceticism the world of mankind is driven by passions. Therefore the passions of the World are simply called "the world". Each of these passions are a link to the world of mankind or order of human society. Each of these passions must be overcome in order for a person to receive salvation (Theosis (Eastern Orthodox theology)
theosis). The process of theosis is a personal relationship with God. This understanding is taught within the works of ascetics like Evagrius Ponticus, and the most seminal ascetic works read most widely by Eastern Christians, the Philokalia and the Ladder of Divine Ascent (the works of Evagrius and John Climacus are also contained within the Philokalia). At the highest level of world Transcendence (religion)
transcendence is hesychasm which culminates into the theoria
Vision of God.
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Portsmouth Yardstick Scheme – what is it?
The PYS is set of guidelines and recommendations from the RYA to help clubs provide its members with fairer racing. It allows boats of difference types and performances to race together using some basic configuration denominators. Part of the recommendations published by the RYA include the Portsmouth Number list which gives allocates numbers to boats dependant on the amount of data received, which in turn gives clubs different levels of confidence when using those numbers. The scheme runs entirely on club data and without the club data the numbers published by the RYA become less meaningful.
Why have the RYA decided to launch a race results
In the past, the RYA have asked clubs to send in their data at the end of every year. The data captured is limited and often open to subjectivity and goes through little validation by the RYA before being used in the statistical number crunching. After a very detailed review of the PYS by the RYA, it was highlighted that the data been captured by the RYA was become less and less meaningful, which was being reflected in the declining amount of returns being received by the RYA.
By launching the RYA Race results website, in collaboration with Simon Lovesey and SailRacer, the RYA are starting to increase the accuracy and meaningfulness of the data being collected by going straight to the source; individual race results. By asking clubs to upload their race results, the RYA are getting raw race data. The raw race data is also being subjected to an analysis in accordance with the RYA guidelines, which again increases the accuracy of the data being returned.
In summary, the RYA hope to collect more data, which is more meaningful to clubs as well as nationally, and start to increase the sailing publics confidence in the system and the numbers published by the RYA.
Why does my club need to adjust numbers?
The PN list published by the RYA is a guidance list to clubs. The advice given by the RYA has always been such that if the Portsmouth Numbers as published do not work for your club, then that club SHOULD change those numbers to ensure fair racing. Any clubs should always be careful when changing numbers to make sure that they are not adjusting a single person (crew skill factor) rather than the performance of the boat. Also to make sure that any data that it bases that adjustment on is considered and fair. Ideally a club should not adjust numbers after only 2 races in similar conditions etc, as well as taking into account local factors such as tidal gates and depth issues.
IT is only by adjusting those numbers that a club will start to get more meaningful results from the website which can then in turn be put back into the club racing system.
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Ian,
How do I import the race data?
I have re-created some of our race data into Sailwave, but even on the data import screen I cannot find how to import the Sailwave file. Also, I have put 2 race results into one file. Is this OK?
Mods to Suggested Handicaps Page
This week I have re-written the way the 'Suggested Handicaps' page works, fixing a problem that Chris G highlighted with data from multiple races on the same day.
You will also see that we are showing the number of boats each suggested handicap has been calculated from. This should help you understand the quality of the suggested handicap
Finally, you can now easily link through to the actual results from several links, including be able to click on the actual graph. This should help in understanding spikes in your suggested handicaps
Problem with Race Dates
Using Sailwave, I've combined all the results from every series (some 40 races) and purged any duplicates, etc. and uploaded the file via Sailwave to the site.
When I try to import each race file I get the 'Enter Race Date' message. No matter what I try it gets rejected. The error messages shows any date either entered or chosen from the Calendar as 1/12/2010 for example 1-DEC-2009=1/12/2010.
I've tried to confuse the transformation by a date combination that might give me 12/1/2010 but with no success.
The dates of the races do not matter, but each race does need manual changes before benchmarking.
How do I get around this??
Barry McGibbon
Lyme Regis Sailing Club
Incorrect Data - GIGO ?
I was intending to import all the race results for our club. I loaded a few but it then occured to me that I may be doing something which is causing PYS to spit out odd handicap information. Our club sails in two fleets, slow and fast, but the results are held in a single Sailwave file. Sailwave formats out the results for the two fleets so that they appear nicely separated on our web site. The slow and fast fleets often sail different courses so there is no correlation between the times recorded for each fleet.
Does PYS treat all the boats in a race as sailing the same course or does it "notice" the fleet information and treat them, in our case, as two separate sets of results and calculate the corrected and on a fleet basis ?
Kerry Stares
Deleting Uploaded Results
I successfully uploaded all the results of our March series using Sailwave
- unfortunately I hadn't noticed there were 189 races registered in the Sailwave file!!! I cannot see any way to remove the erroneous data - do I need to - will it be purged automatically in due course?Ian
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