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In some DF95 Opens I've sailed in, accidental contacts with marks too far away to judge were permitted although contacts between boats were not but then, at that distance, it's one opinion against another!

Results are https://www.iomworlds2026.com/results/ Nigel Barrow is compering the videos (with a few hours delay for upload) on YouTube, he's doing a good job of covering the progressions as they happen. Mark Jardine seems to be giving lots of mentions on Y&Y website - quite a bit of kudos i reckon, for a 'big boat' site to be giving our sport big coverage

I see the windward mark spinning quite a bit, without signs of subsequent penalty turn. But that's with benefit of camera zoom - no idea how skippers/observers can tell, esp. from fairly restricted/fixed angle of view. (Is/was there a dinghy class which stopped bothering with touching a mark being an infringement..?)

I have seen/heard a couple of references to a daily report of the event. Can't see any link to it on the IOM 2026 page. Anyone know if it exits/where it might be?

I imagine it's a limited control area for skippers and observers - observers should not be in a better position to view marks than skippers. Its a big course mind you - judging some of those windward marks and trying to lay them on a starboard tack from far out must be very difficult, mind you the starts are pretty frantic to! What struck me was that we had the benefit of cameras which probably gave us much better images of what was going on at marks and the film showed an awful lot of barging and windward boats leaning on leeward boats! Maybe the course is just too far out?

How close to the windward mark for the skippers, observers and umpires? Is there a long control area, or a fixed position? John

I watched all of the seeding races and then only the A fleet races for races 2 and 3 as life is too short! The impression I got was that they would upload races on later days as soon as they could but it must have been a good 3 1/2 hours if you'd watched all of yesterday ! I also noted that they said that the couldn't afford the live streaming that the Australians had managed due to the exorbitant cost in the UK which is a sad reflection on how we pay through the nose for everything! I don't blame the MYA for being sensible.

So nothing else so far..,

When we eventually got it, terrific video and extremely good commentary (well done Nigel). I look forward to seeing more. Any chance of drones or are we too close to LHR?

look on Youtube it's not going to be streamed live it's going to be edited before posting but the posts are going to be published as soon as they can..

I guess they're trying their best at Datchet but it is a bit frustrating! On FB I've asked if they can indicate when the video might be available? If it was 5pm every day we'd know what to do!

At this time 16.39 hours 17th May it appears the wind has shifted 90 degrees so no racing possible. In my view having an edited delayed coverage seems second best to live. In Croatia and Gladstone they had an enthusiastic commentary team in a mini studio to do interviews and fill in between races which I very much enjoyed. I was ill at home for both events (Covid and the 'Flu) and it was a pleasant way of convalescing to watch. The sunny weather was uplifting too!

Robert, look for https://www.iomworlds2026.com and take it from there!

The website I was directed to was NBC Sports. Looks like someone decided to monetise coverage. They need a credit card to validate which country you are from as NBC are not permitted (by who?) to stream everywhere, apparently. The blurb says you wont be charged for access. Not going to provide my credit card details and disappointed that coverage is evidently going to be geographically restricted to some extent.

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I read a short while ago on the MYA Downwind FB page that the intention now was not to live stream but to show a recording of each race as soon as possible after it was finished. 4 fleets I believe so as the first race started at 10am then you would think that all 4 heats would have been sailed by now but no video yet. Maybe they're all in the protest tent after heat 2 ? !!

Hi Peter, Further to our telecon today, please can you email me (nigelD31@gmail.com), your email address so I can transfer information directly to you. Thanks, Nige

If you click on the link in the channel description you get taken to a proprietary link which requires login and needs your credit card for 'validation'. Not handing my credit card details to some random website. Not impressed. Always thought that the Gladstone Worlds coverage would take some beating and Datchet seem to have failed from the get go for me. Perhaps someone can explain?

Nothing 'live' yet! If you got onto Facebook and search for IOM World Championship 2026 you will get about 2 minutes of recorded 'testing' before the boats are called off the water prior to the first seeding race starting at 10am. Nothing 'live' after that so far and the YouTube channel currently shows 'No Content'. I had heard that there might be a 'highlights' show later in the day at some point rather than live video but your guess is as good as mine!

What am I missing? No videos, something is trying to get me to sign up for a vpn. Is it me?

Measuring from 9.20 this morning… the team must be exhausted. And more tomorrow And from the bank all looks great, grab a space to come and view a great event,

Action starts on Sunday 17th, with build up on site from today. All the results, reports and media can be found via the event website. www.iomworlds2026.com

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