One option that we need to remember that we have is that the motorhome is a
lot more mobile than the old trailer. If we find that it's not working out
during an event, we can adjust the position fairly quickly - if we don't
want to pause the event, we can move it during the mid-event course
walk. Now, this isn't a substitute for trying to put it in the right place
and checking the sight lines before the event starts, but it's a way out if
the RV roadies don't get it right.
Jim
At 01:20 AM 1/31/2001 -0500, Smokerbros@aol.com wrote:
>Katie Kelly writes:
>
>
> > This is a serious problem and if something isn't done to fix it, we're
> going
> > to have nightmares like this forever. That motorhome is really comfy and
> > convenient, but when you can't see who's at the line and who's finishing,
> > and who's out on course, it defeats the whole purpose. We were better off
> >
>
>It's amazing to me how we continually fail to adapt. When we had the
>trailer, the timing crews insisted in having sorter/announcer/timer/writer in
>order left to right, even if the course started on the right, where we should
>have gone the other direction.
>
>Now, we insist on the sorter sitting at the back table, when they could have
>done the job so much better from one of the front seats and passed them back
>to the announcer. We HAVE done this before (rarely) but it works... The
>nice thing about the motorhome is its adaptability to different course
>layouts, and it amazes me that in the hotbed of "out of the box thinking" we
>can't put the card sorter in a place where they can see the starting line.
>
>CHD
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