Currently, the course distance published on the FastGlass website is 93nm.  Since Mr. Olsen has done all the intricate calculations for us in order to get the most accurate course distance, I will change the published Suffolk 100 distance to 92.5 nm.

Okay Feathers, you can now put down your calculator & pencil AND start waxing your Lancair, maybe this will add the one knot you 'lost' from the calcs you did for us...<G>

-grease




"Lorn H. Olsen" <lorn@dynacomm.ws> wrote:

>The exact distance of the Suffolk 100 is 87.5 nm. If we add about 5 nm
>to that we get 92 nm. We have listed on the Suffolk 100 web page that
>the course is 93 nm. The calculated speed differential caused by this
>one mile distance would be 92/93*200 = 2.2 kts. In other words, we
>would be showing higher speeds of about 2.2 kts when compared to the
>Sun 100 race.
>
>I hate to recommend it but i think that we should set the Suffolk 100
>course distance at 92 nm. With this setting our speeds will compare
>directly with the Sun 100 speeds.