Talk:Yacht racing

VANDALISM of this page
Going to "Yacht racing," I found many of the paragraphs duplicated and attempted to delete the duplicates. But apparently at the same time some wiki-vandal was even increasing those duplicates.

I don't know how this person does it, but this vandal made it appear that I made these changes not him/her. Hopefully in the near future, this vandal will stop their "work" and we can clean up this page.

Race duration
A race usually takes around one hundred minutes.

Actually, a race usually takes as long as it takes from my experience. It all depends on the wind and the number of races that are scheduled for a certain regatta. The fewer the planned races, the longer the courses. Regular big-boat weekend series races can be four hours long whereas collegiate dinghy races can be 18 minutes... I am taking the above statement out.

Info needed
Can we add any links to either online racing basics/tutorials or a link to the racing rules?

X metre classes
There seems to be a lack of consistency about the names used for these. The template Template:Keelboats worldwide uses names of the form 12 Metre (keelboat), but I found the 12-metres at 12-metre class. I didn't check to see if we already had articles for others that currently are red links in this template. Not sure what the right thing is, just making a note of the problem. Noel (talk) 00:52, 5 September 2005 (UTC)

First round-the-world
Am I right in thinking that the first round-the-world yacht race of any kind (crewed/single-handed, stopping/nonstop) was the Sunday Times Golden Globe Race? — Johan the Ghost seance 12:59, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Yes, I'm pretty sure that's true - pretty crazy that round-the-world racing was first done singlehanded and nonstop, huh? CDC (talk) 23:52, 11 February 2006 (UTC)
 * That's exactly what I was thinking! But I can't think of any round-the-world race that wasn't inspired by the Golden Globe.  See also Talk:Sunday Times Golden Globe Race. — Johan the Ghost seance 11:35, 12 February 2006 (UTC)

I've gone ahead and named the Golden Globe as first; all the present-day round-the-world races started after it. It would be good if someone could find a reference of some kind to back this up, though. — Johan the Ghost seance 23:18, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Sailing re-organization effort
Take a minute to read the comments at Talk:Sailing#Re-write effort -- non how-to et seq. Some of us are working on re-organizing the sailing-related articles. See if you agree with our approach and give us some help. Mrees1997 19:40, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

Inshore Racing
How about differentiating Inshore racing ie. along coastlines, (not in protected water)from Offshore racing ie across open water, in much the same way as the sailing regs do? Harbour racing is often refered to as Club Racing, and in protected water, although I suppose all racing is sponsored by a club?Jagra 06:06, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Only sailboats?
Does this includes races of boats without sails? Or is this race only about types of sailed ships? I ask this because I want to know which could be the best translation into spanish:

The problem is that this article about yacht racing does not mention clearly if a yacht race is necesarily held only with sail boats or can be held with any other kind of yacht (with or without a sail). Yes, a yacht can have or not a sail, but this article only talks about sailed ships, so what is the correct addressment? - Damërung  ...ÏìíÏ..._ Ξ_         .   --  18:18, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Carrera de vela - Would be like "sail racing" or "race of sail boats"
 * Carrera de botes - More general, inapropiate due this
 * Carrera de yates - Yachts does not always use sails to thrust (could be motored)

head current / surface wind problem
I have no idea how to address this problem, but I figure this discussion page may be a good starting place. Please advise.

Let us assume a sailboat running downwind from A to B with a 10Kn tail wind. I have head current 3Kn one side of AB, head current 1Kn on the other. But let there be two prerequisites: what parametres must be taken into account so that I may decide which side is fastest?Nuttyrave (talk) 21:23, 27 January 2010 (UTC)
 * 1) the sailboat may not run before the wind, it must go make two broad reach tacks, in such a way that it may benefit from 13Kn surface wind one one side of AB, and 11Kn surface wind on the other
 * 2) the sailboat may not cross AB, it must choose one side

Confusion with yachting
The article says that yacht racing is "not to be confused with yachting". Rather than seeming to berate me for being so foolish as to not know the difference, the article should educate me and tell me how yachting and yacht racing differ. Dricherby (talk) 00:01, 27 June 2012 (UTC)

Interchange with Sail boat racing?
There are no pages for Sail racing, or sailboat racing. Sail boat racing has been redirected here, although this very article begins by stressing that Yacht racing refers to racing relatively substantial sailing vessels (or, compared to sailing ships, relatively insubstantial). I doubt that anyone would include dinghy racing, such as with the Bermuda fitted dinghy, as yacht racing. We also would not include oceanic tall ships racing, or the racing of hobie cats. It is questionable if even day sailers that are dedicated racing boats can be properly described as yachts, such as the IOD. Aodhdubh (talk) 13:31, 22 June 2013 (UTC)


 * I do not agree with the editor that has integrated powerboats into this story. A yacht race has always been a reference to sailing yachts. The list of races at the bottom of the story is all sailing events and in the many years that I have been racing yachts, of reasonable size out of yacht clubs all over the world never have I heard anyone refer to a power boat race as a yacht race. The term Offshore power boat race, or just power boat race is widely accepted as the proper term here. With regard to racing Bermuda fitted dinghy's the term used most to define that type of racing is, once again a yacht race, as yacht clubs are the hosts of such races and it is accepted as the proper term for that type of racing as well. You would never hear the phrase "Power Yacht Race" from anyone. (Offshore Power Boats): Yacht lengths generally range from 10 metres (33 ft) up to dozens of metres (hundreds of feet). A luxury craft smaller than 12 metres (39 ft) is more commonly called a cabin cruiser or simply a cruiser. (talk) --WPPilot 09:54, 14 September 2013 (UTC)

File:Cabo San Lucas Race Start 2013 photo D Ramey Logan.jpg to appear as POTD
Hello! This is a note to let the editors of this article know that File:Cabo San Lucas Race Start 2013 photo D Ramey Logan.jpg will be appearing as picture of the day on October 27, 2014. You can view and edit the POTD blurb at Template:POTD/2014-10-27. If this article needs any attention or maintenance, it would be preferable if that could be done before its appearance on the Main Page. Thanks! — Crisco 1492 (talk) 01:11, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Delete entire Races section
I'm not sure what the point of this section is. It certainly isn't an exhaustive list of races in each category. There must be hundreds of offshore races around the world each year. What's so special about this particular dozen they they make the list? And what makes something an "offshore" race vs. and "inshore" race? Why is Macinac offshore? Why aren't races like Around Long Island and the Vineyard listed at all? These lists will never be comprehensive, so I'm inclined to say they shouldn't exist at all. -- RoySmith (talk) 20:55, 27 October 2014 (UTC)