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The dominating elements of this discipline are: the
performances of the boat, the ability to react of the
skipper and the crew and especially the weather report.
It is necessary to find the best course according to
the capacities of the boat and to wait for the good
meteorological window.
It is the discipline which allows the closest report
with the boat and with elements.
So, the attempts of records are also a means to calibrate
the speeds of the boat, to deepen the knowledge of its
potential and to give to the skipper the capacity to
exploit it. They also bring to a particular listening
of elements: direction, force and regularity of the
wind, currents, state of the sea (lap, swell, waves).
But so that the performance has a value, so that it
is official and so that it can be again beaten, it is
needed a regulating authority.
The WSSRC is born in 1972. At first, this authority
watches and ratifies only the speed records on 500 metres,
tempted by different machines. In 1988, the WSSRC widens
its radius of action by taking into account the records
on the offshore courses or in open sea.
Today the WSSRC consists of a dozen members and has
a permanent secretariat. It takes charge, with the cooperation
of "commissioners" or independent observers,
with timing the attempts inshore and offshore and to
ratify the records. Certificates are handed to the holders
of the records and the performances are listed. The
WSSRC also publishes the list the best reference times
established in race, delivered by the committees of
race. Finally this institution promulgates the rules
which are there to supervise any attempt of record,
and no record can be ratified if it was not realized
according to these rules.
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