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2015 Stanley Notice of Race (V1 00 Final)

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Melbourne to Stanley.

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Ocean Race: 152 nm

Race Start: 2300 AEDT, off Queenscliff on Friday, 30th October 2015

Event Category: 2

The ORCV's Melbourne to Stanley yacht race starts off Queenscliff and finishes at Stanley in Northwestern Tasmania. It is held each year on the Melbourne Cup long weekend.

Please also note, that this is a qualifying race for both of the Melbourne to Hobart races, the Rolex Sydney Hobart yacht race but not required for the Melbourne to Devonport race. However, some crews still choose to do Stanley as practice for Australia's oldest ocean race across Bass Strait- the Rudder Cup.

2018 Stanley race start postponed

Bad weather

From Nicholas McGuigan, Stanley Race Director

As Race Director for the 2018 Melbourne to Stanley Yacht Race, I have considered the latest weather forecast and taken the decision to delay the start of the race to the next slack in the Heads. The new start time will be 0930 on 3 November and other related times, Sign-on Schedule, Shipping Advice Broadcast and the Warning, will be adjusted accordingly. A Notice to Competitors has been posted detailing all the required timing changes.

As the weather system passes through, conditions are expected to abate over the period of the race. Delaying the start will avoid the worst of the conditions although wave height and sea state remain a concern. However, we expect the wind to be abaft the beam ensuring a fast and enjoyable reach to Stanley and this played a major part in our thinking.

Finally, I remind you all of Fundamental Rule 4 (Decision to Race) which states: The responsibility for a boat’s decision to participate in a race or to continue racing is hers alone.

For the official notice, click 2018 Stanley NTC 03

2018 Stanley Race Weather Update Friday morning

The trickiest weather for the fleet will be negotiating the passage down to the start this evening. The Race Directors Nick and Martin had a pleasant passage on the Spirit of Tasmania and are down in Tassie setting up to welcome the fleet in tomorrow evening

Melbourne to Stanley Race preview

Assistant Race Director for the upcoming Melbopurne to Stanley yacht race, Martin Vaughan, gives a short preview of the conditions we should expect for Saturday's Melbourne to Stanely Ocean race.

Blue Water Tracks

Grant Dunoon (ORCV Member) has spent considerable effort in creating a cost-effective tracker for the ORCV which provides a professional approach to encourage participation in the sport both from a safety and spectator perspective.

It is important that as competitors we repay that effort by making sure when we participate in a race that we add all the details that make the BlueWater Tracker a world-class tracking system.

So how do you do your bit

If you have some computer skills follow the procedure set out below If not, please seek the assistance of one of your crew members to assist you.

BlueWater

Tracker Profile Setup Guide

This guide steps you through setting up your Bluewater Tracks tracker profile for a race both as an individual and as a crew member.

Videos to Help with these Tasks:

Adding crew to a boat Click Here

Adding a boat administrator Click Here

Adding crew details Click Here

Getting Access to Blue Water Tracks

The BueWater Tracks back-end system, where the profiles are maintained, is accessed through the following URL: https://portal.bluewatertracks.com/signin

When prompted, you enter your Username and Password to sign in. DO NOT create an account.

Your Username is the email address you specified when registering with TopYacht. Check your TopYacht profile if you can’t remember which one you used.

Signing in for the first time. You won’t have a password and need to create one. Click on Forgot your password? to initiate the lost password process and follow the prompts. This will send a password reset link to your email address. Use this to set a password. Please remember it or you will have to repeat the process next time.

All Crew Members (including skippers)

If you are unsure please see the videos above

Crew members should update their profiles with at least the following details:

Under the Crew Details tab (on the blue bar near the top of the window), a Photo, First Name, Last Name, Phone (04xx xxx xxx), Gender (only two, I’m afraid), Country (you’ll get a flag!), Crew Role and a short Bio.
Under the Social tab, please link your social media profile.

You may enter details of next of kin and other interested parties under the Contacts tab if you wish.

Ignore Documents as we don’t use them. Races is a record of your races (since we started using the system).

When complete, log out and close your browser.

Boat Owners

If you are unsure, please see the videos above. You can assign a crew member to assist you with these task by setting them as a boat administrator (see video above)

They must also update the profile of their boat with at least the following details from these tabs:

Boat Details tab (blue bar again), Boat Photo, Boat Name, Sail Number, Design, Type (select from list), Length, Width, Draft, Units (meters!), Country (a flag will be shown), Skipper Name, Email Address (of the Skipper), Phone Number (04xx xxx xxx), DSC MMSI (if you have one) and a short Bio of the boat.
“Crew” will list all the crew that have sailed on your boat. The crew for any particular race will often be a subset of these.
Social is the list of social media sites the boat has a presence on, for example, Facebook, Twitter etc. Please add these links so that people can quickly follow your boat.

Documents as we don’t use this tab.

Handicaps is where you enter the measurement handicaps you will be using. Typically, these will be AMS, IRC or both. Don’t enter a PHS handicap.

When done, log out and close your browser.

How to use BlueWaterTracks with navigation software

you need to add the URL's below the race name which you get from the public tracker page eg /2019-melbourne-to-stanley-race

CSV format with:

https://api.bluewatertracks.com/csv/

URL's for Expedition,

https://api.bluewatertracks.com/expedition/

https://api.bluewatertracks.com/expedition/positions/

To get all the competitor's last position during the race you can enter the below URL in your browser to down load a GPX file. If you are using the Expedition software then you should use the “Blue Water Track” menu option in that software.

https://api.bluewatertracks.com/gpx/

This url will download just the last position for all the boats and will be the smallest file.

Adding a “/xx” where xx = the number of positions from the last one to also include. Eg:

https://api.bluewatertracks.com/gpx/

The “/8” on the end will include the last 8 positions of each boat in the downloaded file. The Osaka race will have the trackers set to send the position every 4 hours then if we get 8 positions for each boat then that would be 2 days worth of positions.

Most chart plotters and navigation software can read GPX. (Free navigation software: OpenCPN)

Be careful not to set this to a large number as it may take some time to download over satellite.

2018 Stanley Race Weather Update

We have 15 boats and 112 crew all set and ready to take on this weekends race

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