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The 2008 Maui Vmax competition is a GPS speed-sailing competition that will have two concurrent events. Their will be a Speed Ladder running all year and a Speed Series consisting of six Speed Meetings. The Speed Meetings will score points to count towards an overall series champion. The Speed ladder is an open event which will score only the single highest speed.
2008 Dates for Speed Meetings (subject to change):
Sunday - May 25
Sunday - June 29
Sunday - July 13
Sunday - August 31
Sunday - Sept 21
Sunday - Oct. 19The Speed meetings may be cancelled 24hours in advance if the conditions look unfavourable. Please check the website or call on the day if in doubt.
Minimum winds – 15 knots on the course or at the discretion of the Race Director.
Make-up days – in the event a Speed meeting is cancelled there may be a make-up date. This date will be announced at least five days in advance and will be a Sunday before October 19th.
Sanctioned devices- ONLY data collected by a GT-11 GPS unit will be used to score results. ONLY GPS Results software shall be used to record results. We have these available for purchase.
Speed Ladder - Single fastest 100m speed as recorded by GT-11 GPS and results verified by the Race Director using GPS results software (interpolation on). Tracks must be saved and sent to the Race Director Tom Hammerton via e-mail (speed@Mauivmax.com) or the GPS delivered in person at the Hot Sails Maui loft (96 Amala Place, Kahului) when available.
Speed Meeting (Series) - The top three 100m speeds as recorded by GT-11 GPS averaged and results verified by the Race Director using GPS results software (interpolation on) will be used for the day’s result. The competitors will be ranked in order from fastest to slowest using the average of their three fastest 100m speeds. If the course is open for less than three hours the average of two highest speeds will be used, unless the course is open for less than two hours in which case only the single highest speed will be used, unless the course is open less than one hour in which case the Speed meeting will be abandoned with no results scoring for the series. In the case of abandonment results will still be accepted for the Speed Ladder. The highest speed will automatically be entered into the Speed Ladder. Points will be awarded for each Speed meeting to count towards an overall series champion. The series winner will have the most points after discards are taken into consideration. There will be two discards unless only four or less speed meetings are held in which case there will be only one discard.
The first 10 places of each division will score points.
Series sponsor Hot Sails Maui (www.hotsailsmaui.com/2008)
For more details or to reserve/purchase a GPS unit please contact the race director at: speed@Mauivmax.com
"The goal is to break 43 knots open ocean, so we are looking for the fastest 100 meter stretch of water off of Maui.", says Beale. Sailors who are expected to participate include the fastest from the last two years of the Navman series : Anders Bringdal, Erik Beale, Alex Aguera, Jaques Pauvert and Robby Naish. There are no set heats or anything, people can do as many runs as they want and stay as long or as little as they like.
Click here to access the old Navman Maui Speed Challenge site.
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