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system, but it’s not complicated for the driver. It predicts an optimum route and elapsed time by combining maps, vehicle type, traffic conditions, road closures and so on. Most of us are happy Google is routeing us in a sensible way, at least until we see grass between the wheel tracks. Users don’t worry that the algorithm for routeing a bus is different from routeing a Mini, they just get on with it. The Weather Routeing Scoring process is similarly complex, but it delivers an easily accessible, robust and fair way to provide Time Correction Factors based on a boat’s polars.
If they wish race organisers can devolve all their scoring decisions to the Weather Routeing Scoring system. Their task is to: gather the entries and start times define the racecourse submit this data to the Weather Routeing Scorer distribute the Time Correction factors to the fleet. Prompted by Stan Honey, the USA’s submission to the ORC in 2022 set this ball rolling and ORC followed his vision. Stan says, ‘Weather Routeing Scoring uses three highly complex technologies, sailboat performance prediction, weather forecasting and optimal routeing, to make racing simpler.
‘With TCFs for each boat issued prior to the start, time allowances are easy to figure so sailors can race tactically, knowing who to cover and when to split. ORC should be commended for the best possible use of technology to make racing simpler and more fun.’ For the 2024 season ORC will use Weather Routeing Scoring to score offshore races at the World and European Championships. Other races are also planning to use the system with ORC support. During 2024 the ORC will develop, in collaboration with Predict - Wind, the standalone software needed to make Weather Routing Scoring an accessible option for organisers who want to use it. Organisers happy enough with the scoring options already on the certificate do not need to stop using them, but for coastal and offshore courses Weather Routeing Scoring could do a better job. Offshore Special Regulations will no longer permit SSS to be used for Cat 0 and Cat 1 races – but the committee were told that the removal of SSS for races below Cat 1 would lead to the decimation of some offshore fleets. World Sailing has set up a Working Party to review the stability screening process. Andy Claughton, ITC Chair
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