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Fees

mike cunningham

mike cunningham

Freedom 30 "Jacqueline"
I'm headed overseas for a few weeks starting on the 13th. Will Jibeset be accepting the final race fee by then? I will probably be able to get at Wifi from time but will be in the wilds of Tasmania for much of the trip so who knows. Will I be fined, disqualified or otherwise abused if I don't pay by whatever date is established for a payment deadline? I will be back on the 1st of April.
 
Mike,

I think you have to "edit registration" then go down to Part 2 and click on "final payment" to select the $750 registration fee.

Bill
S/v Dolfin
 
Thanks. I was wondering how this worked. I clicked on the "pay fees" on March 10 and it said "all fees are paid." I was wondering if I might have had a secret benefactor....sigh.
 
Over the past weekend Don Martin asked, "A luncheon? what luncheon?" Which made me realize that this question hasn't yet been asked:

What do I get for my entry fee?

Answer: By signing up for the Singlehanded Transpacific Yacht Race, racers get all kinds of benefits, such as ‘swag bags’ full of goodies, an aloha luncheon at the Corinthian Yacht Club and dinner at the Nawiliwili Yacht Club in Kauai. You will receive a cool sailing jacket with your boat’s name on it. You will receive a race program with photographs and biographies of fellow race participants, and achieve fame and fortune. Well, maybe not that last part, but you will most assuredly feel proud of yourself. You will have the privilege of spending an enormous amount of money preparing your boat and during your time alone on the ocean your loved ones will worry themselves sick about you until you fall, sleep deprived, into their arms on the other side of the Pacific Ocean.

And here's a photograph of Joe Balderrama aboard the lovely Archimedes at the start of the 2014 Race
 

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Well, I still can't figure out how to pay the rest of the fees. I went to edit registration, but it says the $150 I've already paid is all there is. It says:

"Final Payment - must be paid by Mar 1, 2018
Final Payments can be paid at any time before the due date. You may choose the pay them during registration by
selecting the payment you wish/need to make. You may return at a later date and selecting the payment you wish / need
to pay. See the NOR for additional fee details.
Final Payment: Pay later $0.00"

So what's up with this?? Perhaps I need some hand holding....
 
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On the update registration page where you found "final payment" there is an arrow for a pull down menu and a box to select. Continue from there.
 
Philpott said:
Over the past weekend Don Martin asked, "A luncheon? what luncheon?" Which made me realize that this question hasn't yet been asked:

What do I get for my entry fee?

Answer: By signing up for the Singlehanded Transpacific Yacht Race, racers get all kinds of benefits, such as . . . .
Click to expand...

Is a web-based tracking page for friends and family to follow another goodie we get for our fees? While I'm pretty sure the last few races have had such a tracking page, I haven't seen anything about that for this year. I know we all will be carrying trackers, but will RC have that telemetry translated onto a web-viewable map for all to see?
 
Hi Lee -
yes, we will have a public facing tracking page that will post the tracking and check in data. Fear not!

DH
 
The short answer to your question is no, there is no track archive that I know of. I'd be happy to be proven wrong on that.
longer answer below.

To date all of the tracking providers (Yellow Brick, etc) have required a weblink on the SHTP website that then sends you to their site.
the net result is the SSS does not own the displayed data.

There is a link to the 2016 site on the main SSS site here http://sfbaysss.org/main/shtp-2018/
Up until at least January, you could replay the race on the tracker map.
That now appears to be broken, likely due to the tracking companies [Pinnacle] demise.

There was no weather overlay, nor to my recollection has there ever been, for SHTP tracking sites.
Even if there were, I cannot think of a tracking site that archives the weather... they all cache a certain amount of weather data and dump what is older than the current hour.
Looking at the Volvo site, even with all of their resources, you can only move the "weather" forward in time, not back. you can scrub the boat tracks back, but not the weather.

much of this will very likely change this year, hopefully to include Windy - no promises, the dev on that is ongoing and they (windy) are not very communicative just now.
We will also be working with Jibeset for our tracking, which has the added benefit of us gaining an archive.

DH
 
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