Day 2 - still quiet
The first morning has been relatively quiet. A steady stream of people over the last few hours presenting a few problems, mainly language. German, Spanish and French is not too common here, and everyone makes their best effort in English. Passports need to be checked and confirmed – a Master’s regatta is based on age. You have to be over 27 to complete, and the ages go right up tocould the 90s. I’m sure if you were over 100 you could race, but we get that rarely. Races are handicapped by age, with set time advantages to try and equalise races where there are mixed ages.
A large team from Brazil come in and cause a minor buzz. Lots of issues to solve with their entry and plenty of transport tickets to sell. It does not help that half way through this, we are informed that we have to cut the power and take the network down for 10 minutes – some last chance change to the electrical system that cut all power.
Second shift for all the entry volunteers and another round of explanations takes place. It’ll be at least another day before everyone has gone through it.
Meanwhile, a bright idea is had. They want to put a camera on the start and broadcast it to the spectators (who are mainly 1000 metres away). But there’s no hardwire connections between the router and the spectators. The solution – wireless. So I get to go shopping with someone’s else’s money for router/wireless hub. Tomorrow we see if we can put it together.