World Championship OnLine Viper Sailing

[Col Delane]

Ooops I forgot to allow for summer time so everything is +1 hour from GMT.

There are two x 4 race regattas. One is 8.00pm EST and the other is 8.00 pm PST.

Yes Garrett, there are also two more regattas, at 8.00pm UK time and 7.00 or 8.00 (I forget) Sydney time.....but you have some serious addictive tendencies if you are setting your alarm to sail in the Aussie regatta.

8.00pm UK (Summer time) = 7.00pm UTC/GMT = 3.00am next day Perth (WTF - too early!) = 5.00am next day Sydney. No daylight saving down under at present - it's winter here. Try this world clock if you need to set your alarm so you don't miss a race: 
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingtime.html?iso=20130713&p1=137&p2=43&p3=136&p4=196&p5=240

[Col Delane]

What logins do two from the same boat (say owner/skipper and one crew) use to participate separately? Do we add a number to boat name(e.g. ViperKissMyAsp for owner and ViperKissMyAsp2 for crew)?

[Justin Scott]

Col,

If I was crew I might come up with something like ViperKissdmyasp or Viperkissmycrewsasp.

Don't use Viperkissmyasp2 because you can actually enter the field twice and a "2" will appear after your name and folks will try and point out that you are not being scored.

Aussies can participate at 10.00 GMT and 0300 GMT and 0000 GMT. There certainly seem to be a lot of Aussie flags on the fields at those times.  WA is GMT +8.   So the 10.00 racing is at 6.00pm your time and the 0300 racing is at 11.00 am your time. 0000 is 8.00am, so you can race while eating yr Wheatabix and Vegemite.

Sydney is +10 so 10.00 is 8.00pm and 0300 is 1.00pm.   0000 is 10.00 am in Sydney.

Cheers 

VMK

[Bill Walker]

so what is this Unity Web thing and do i have to download to sail ??

[Justin Scott]

These might be helpful.

Key stroke reminders:

[Garrett Johns]

These might be helpful.

Key stroke reminders:

The fact I learned the "double ESC panic key" instantly abandons you from the race...good
The fact I had to use it twice tonight in a 4 race regatta .....bad!

[Col Delane]

I registered ViperKissMyAspCrew yesterday but have not received any email to complete the process.
I have tried subsequently to login several times and got the same message (email re-sent, etc.)
I have no spam/junk messages & my ISP filters allow potential spam/junk to come through to my Inbox (tagged as "Spam") - but so far nothing received.
I even tried to re-register but Sailx says that username is already registered (it seems that my initial registration was at least partially successfull)!

I have sent a similar message to this to Sailx.

[Paul Zinger]

They do indeed flip over.

[Justin Scott]

They do indeed flip over.

Welcome to Sarnia!

Zinger was leading the race and then broached downwind.

Tips,
1. Hit E so you can see capsize probability.
2. Watch for flashing circle on boat , amber is "Uh Oh". Red is " Oh Shit" . Black is "we're goooooone"
3. When flip probability goes over 1 or you start flashing amber , put the bow down.  In crisis, ease the sheets (the mast doesn't break!)

[Paul Zinger]

Thanks Justin,

Would have been helpful if I knew those keys 10 boat lengths away from the finish ;)

Lots of fun though, wish I had signed up for this when it first came out.

[Justin Scott]

I registered ViperKissMyAspCrew yesterday but have not received any email to complete the process.
I have tried subsequently to login several times and got the same message (email re-sent, etc.)
I have no spam/junk messages & my ISP filters allow potential spam/junk to come through to my Inbox (tagged as "Spam") - but so far nothing received.
I even tried to re-register but Sailx says that username is already registered (it seems that my initial registration was at least partially successfull)!

I have sent a similar message to this to Sailx.

From Aestela at SailX:

I checked. And the user was NOT confirmed.
I've confirmed it manually and he should be able to login with his password.

It's strange we didn't know anything about this user. It's quite normal we receive requests similar to his; and they get solved in the day.

[Garrett Johns]

FYI, in case any of you other "fake sailors" out there haven't been paying attention, the EFG Online Viper regatta at Sailx is on again this week. Next regatta starts in an hour (8pm PST) if you are reading this before that time.
Have fun!