How wind data is collected, and the way it is collected, is key to accurate scoring using the ORC Scorer program. Since the ORC Scorer “constructed course” program will be frequently used due to the radical wind shifts that are typical during the week and on weekends in our locale, relying on single point, observer estimated data, from the Committee Boat renders accurate scoring efforts useless. Collecting data from various sources at various locations around the course is by far the more accurate way of providing useful and reliable data. The old adage: “garbage in – garbage out” accurately describes how wind speed information has been collected in the past. Use of new technology has basically left the old way of doing things in the dust. Below, please find locations where data is collected:

• Coast Guard land-based weather station
• NOAA Real Time Data
• NOAA Great Lakes Data
• NOAA local Buffalo Harbor Near Shore Weather Station

A proprietary system, developed by Buffalo ORC, is used to import accurate data supplied by the various collection points and relay that data wirelessly into the ORC scorer System. To our knowledge, no other system of this nature has been developed or in use.