You might be so shut!!! Ensure you know the place to be and when. It will make the entire race higher.
For these of you not on Fb, this was posted to the Chattajack Fb web page:
The 2024 Chattajack race will include a 3-Warmth Begin.
As the Chattajack OC-6 division has grown we’re making an adjustment to make everybody’s race expertise as near good as potential. We’d like everybody to learn rigorously so that they know what to do and when to do it. It’s necessary to be acquainted with the plan’s “movement of occasions” in case of fog race morning.
CJ 3 Heats:
- Warmth 1: SUPS & Inclined, Kayaks (something 20” broad or extra), C-1, C-2, and C-4
- Warmth 2: OC-6s
- Warmth 3: Surf Skis, Tandem Surfskis, OC-1s, OC-2s, OC-3s
FLOW of occasions:
Race day morning (October 26) will start simply because it has a few years earlier than. We’ll collect at Ross’s Touchdown, have a pre-race security briefing (7:30 AM) adopted by our Nationwide Anthem, then Warmth 1’s individuals will instantly be ushered in the direction of the two floating docks (Warmth 1 operates precisely the identical as earlier years).
As the amount of Warmth 1 individuals getting into the two docks gangways diminishes, a Chattajack official will start diverting remaining Warmth 1 individuals to 1 floating dock. This can enable the OC-6s to start utilizing the second floating dock. (We did this identical factor in 2023).
Consideration OC-6 crews!!
As Quickly As You Come Off The Floating Docks, paddle your OC-6 straight throughout the breadth of the river to the far aspect (take a look at the illustrations on this put up). Promptly paddling throughout the river ensures your OC-6 vessel won’t hinder the trail of Warmth 1’s racers. As soon as your OC-6 has crossed the river please start paddling up river to the place you’ll stage upstream from Warmth 1’s staging zone (see picture). In case your OC-6 is flanking Maclellan Island, congrats, you’ve accomplished your staging mission.
Warmth 1
Warmth 1 will finalize alignment beneath the Walnut St. Bridge simply as in earlier years, the race administrators boat will lead the “DRIFT ALIGNMENT” in the direction of the Market Road bridge executing the Warmth 1 begin with shotgun blast.
OC-6s, when you hear Warmth 1’s shotgun begin, please drift into the first staging space however Do Not Go Past Walnut St. Bridge. Stay upstream of Walnut Road bridge, look forward to the race director’s vessel to return to your staging space (Walnut Road Bridge) to begin alignment and start Warmth 2’s drift alignment & shotgun begin.
Warmth 3
Your group will function precisely because it has in years previous, the one distinction is the OC-6s are not beginning inside your warmth. Merely wait at basecamp for the OC-6s to go basecamp then make your strategy to stage for Warmth 3’s race begin above Walnut St. Bridge.
FOG
Please familiarize yourselves with this 3-Warmth motion plan. Fog on race morning is all the time a really actual issue. Fog creates enormous challenges with communication so the extra everybody understands this plan the higher.
Footnote for the curious:
Why “Drift Alignment” exists at Chattajack?
The overwhelming majority of the vessels competing in Chattajack have a rudder or fin close to their stern making it tough/unattainable for a vessel to keep up a static place within the river whereas pointing downstream (The river present physics will naturally pull the strict fin to at least one aspect or the opposite inflicting your vessel to finish a 180 diploma flip ending with the vessel pointing upstream). To keep away from the complications of staging vessels jack-knifing, bumping into each other, and so on., the easy answer is for staged individuals to maintain their bow pointing upstream whereas awaiting the announcement of “drift alignment” to start. As soon as drift alignment has begun, the race director’s boat will start to float downstream with the river present. Racers float downstream queuing themselves within the beginning line-up the place they select to be, whereas paying shut consideration to not enable their vessel to go in entrance of the race administrators boat for the gun begin. Participant vessels in entrance of the director’s boat on the time of the gun begin will obtain quarter-hour added to their ending time.
Chattajack Rookies/Maiden CJ Voyagers
Should you’ve by no means raced Chattajack earlier than and this appears overwhelming or onerous to visualise (it is fairly insane we agree!), no worries, you’re gonna be simply effective!! Simply get to the Chattajack base camp on Friday with loads of time to not be rushed and ask a Chattajack veteran to clarify what to anticipate and the way these new adjustments will most likely look, we’ll even have some banners illustrating/depicting the 3-heat begin.
Chattajack’s web site will probably be up to date w/ these particulars shortly – y’all simply acquired the primary glimpse
This data was correct as of October 19, 2024. Try the Chattajack Fb web page right here for updates
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