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Table Top Rally No. 4

Downloadable instructions found here – Table Top Rally No 4 instructions

OS Map 99, Edition February 2016, works on version C3

OS Map 104. Edition February 2016

Regularity Four

RS4 to IRTC4.1

CRO.

206 579  depart W

YBB          BGBG     GGY         YYy           yyy           yYY           YyY           YYY

Q1            What is the total of the gridlines crossed when travelling in a southerly direction?

Q2            What letter(s) does the route touch or go through?

 

IRTC4.1 to 4.2

From SH218 take the longest route possible to SH121 approach sw, do not cross GL24 or 60.

Yellow roads only.

Q3.          How many times do you cross grid line 22?

Q4.          How many times do you cross grid line 23?

Q5.          How many triangles do you go LWR?

Q6.          How many staggered cross roads are used?

 

IRTC4.2 to 4.3 time off day junctions

I hope you have a chronological watch handy!

Starts as SH121 (CRO)

8:10                          7:05                          5:55                          6:45                          4:50                          5:10

Then cross the river twice to the intermediate control at gridline 59.

Q7            How many times have you crossed flowing water?

Q8            What types of churches are passed on route?

Q9            How many times have you gone U (under) or O?

IRTC4.3 to 4.4

YYY           YYY           YYy           yYY           YYY           YYY           YYY           572657                                    26            26            27            PH

to finish the regularity at the roundabout.

Q10         How many times do you cross gridlines in this section (ignore grid line 59 where the section started)?

Q11         Does the correct route pass the entrance to Cote Syke?

Q12         What are the last three spot heights you pass through (not the total)?

 

Tie break, what is the total off all the spot heights passed on the regularity?

 

Table Top Rally No. 3 Answers

OS Map 99, Edition February 2016, works on version C3

OS Map 104. Edition February 2016

 

Throughout the event, consider all roads unless explicitly told otherwise.

Regularity Three

RS3 to IRTC3.1

RS3 228 674 ½ depart WSW

Pass through the following spot heights only;       254         278         307         141

Do not go through ‘igh’

IRTC3.1 is at SH141

Questions RS3 to IRTC3.1

Q1: What letters does the route between RS3 and IRTC3.1 pass through?      dh, H, de.

Q2: How many Red dots are there between the RS3 and SH278?  ……….. 32

Q3: How many Mile Posts between RS3 and IRTC3.1? ………………………. one

Q4: How many places of worship? ………………………   two

 

IRTC3.1 to IRTC3.2

IRTC3.1 is at SH141

Go through four green dots,

64            63            63

Pass through a further 19 green dots to approach ‘th’ from the NNW.

Questions IRTC3.1 to IRTC3.2

Q5: Which bank does the route go through twice? ………………….Hazel bank

Q6: Name the three types of ‘Tourist Information’ you pass to the west of the route?  ……….. Viewpoint 180, Visitors Centre, Parking.  National Trust is a Land Feature

Q7: What is 668? ………………………. Cycle network number

Q8: Does the correct route pass to the south of North Owl?   No (doesn’t use the road which passes the entrance)

 

IRTC3.2 to IRTC3.3

IRTC3.2 is at ‘th’

er              im            m

End of section at SH91

 

Questions IRTC3.2 and 3.3

Q9: How many spot heights does the route pass through between ‘m’ and ‘m’?      ………………….4; 95, 143, 146 , 125

Q10: What is the name of the farm after ‘im’ ……………….Mansion house farm

Q11: On the second other road used in this section, what type of wood is to the west of the road? ………………………. Mixed

 

IRTC3.3 to IRTC3.4

IRTC3.3 is at SH91.  Coloured roads only

Pass two (  and three + and through P twice to finish at 210 579

The route may pass other map features or through other letters.

 

Questions IRTC3.3 and 3.4

Q12: Taking the sh91 as the first what is the third SH on route?      ………………….113

Q13: What is the name of the only farm the route passes through? ……………..(Crake Ho Farm

Q14: What is the name of the last property you pass before the end of the regularity? …………. Dicken Dyke

 Descriptive

RS3 to IRTC3.1

The section started by Yard House Head at grid reference: 228 674 ½ departing WSW on the B road.

The instructions do not list SH216, therefore, we turn right onto the yellow before SH216 and pass through the letters ‘dh’ and ‘H’, then turning right at the T junction, passing through the down and up (> <) arrows, through Eavestone and continue on the now white until it rejoins the B road at the crossroads, turning right to pass the through the first of the listed spot heights: 254.

You will also have passed through 13 red dots so far.

We have said not to go through ‘igh’ to stop you turning left at the first junction and using the white going through H’igh’ Moor.

Approximately halfway between SH254 and Quarry House turn right onto the White road and continue to the junction with the yellow and turning right to SH278. On this white you will have passed through a further 19 red dots.

Cross the cattle grid and turn left, still on a yellow, passing through the third SH307 a cattle grid and then take the next left carrying straight on across the cross roads passing through the ‘de’ – Low Bishopdike to rejoin the B road again where you turn right to try to find SH141 which is located near Wilsill.

Continue on the brown road passing the Mile Post (mp) before Fell Beck PH, remaining on it until the staggered cross roads, turn left through three down arrows (>) passing the first church (+) and a telephone box to the junction with the B6165, turn left and then at the next church (+) turn left onto the yellow to SH141.

Q1: What letters does the route between RS3 and IRTC3.1 pass through?      ‘dh’ ‘H’ & ‘de’

Q2: How many Red dots are there between the RS3 and SH278?  32

Q3: How many Mile Posts between RS3 and IRTC3.1? One

Q4: How many places of worship? Two

 

IRTC3.1 to IRTC3.2

Leave the control at SH141, go through four green dots, the fourth just touching the junction where you need to turn right onto the white. I hoped using Grid Lines next would help to show you needed to take this white down through Knox Hall, having cross GL64.

At the junction with the brown road turn left passing through the B of Hazel Bank, cross GL63, then take the next left onto the white road going north passing through GL63 and part of the word Hazel Bank for the second time.

Next was the tricky one, 19 green dots, which route to choose as both allowed you to visit the ‘th’ in South Farm from the same direction.  Having measured both options from the last GL to the ‘th’, the shortest route by just over a tenth of a mile is to follow the white round to the left and through the buildings so you rejoin the yellow just bellow GL64 and turn right to pass through the first green dot.  You pass through five green dots in total up to the crossroads where you turn left towards Brimham Rocks

At Brimham you pass our three types of Tourist Information; Viewpoint 180, Visitors Centre,  Parking.  National Trust is a Land Feature.  And then 688 the Cycle network number.

Pass through a total of 9 green dots and then turn right, do not pass SH276.  This road takes you past High North Farm, for the shortest route take the first right to Warsill, you will have passed through another 5 green dots, don’t go straight on passed North Owl and taking the second right.

Continue south to the control at South Farm.

Q5: Which bank does the route go through twice? Hazel Bank

Q6: Name the three types of ‘Tourist Information’ you pass to the west of the route?  Viewpoint 180, Visitors Centre,  Parking.  National Trust is a Land Feature

Q7: What is 688? National Cycle Route

Q8: Does the correct route pass to the south of North Owl?   No

 

IRTC3.2 to IRTC3.3

We said in the instructions to consider all roads, leave the control and at the next junction turn right at the T, the yellow becomes a white.

Turn left at the junction by the word ‘Brimham’ carrying staying on the white to pass through Sheph”er”d’s Lodge, down to the cross roads with the yellow.

Follow the yellow passing through Br”im”ham Hall Farm and Mansion House Farm.

The next M is the M in Summerbridge on the B road.  The shortest route being to use the white, cross GL62 and turn right onto the white, going through Winsley, at the next T, turn right, remaining on the white past the wood (mixed) and down to the B6165.  Turn right and follow the road to Sum”m”erbridge, passing through four spot heights.  If you missed taking the white and took the yellow to the junction you will have five, the additional one being SH136.

After the name Summerbridge, take the first brown road on the left towards Dacre Banks SH91 is just after the junction.

Q9: How many spot heights does the route pass through between ‘m’ and ‘m’?      Four; 95, 143, 146, 125

Q10: What is the name of the farm after ‘im’?        Mansion house farm

Q11: On the second ‘other road’ used in this section, what type of wood is to the west of the road? Mixed

 

IRTC3.3 to IRTC3.4

This section is coloured roads only.

Remain on the B6451 and pass the two Telephone boxes, the second being at Dacre. Staying on the brown road, pass Darley Mill centre and then take the next left onto the yellow at Darley Head passing the first of three +’s. Take the first right and you will pass the second +, then on passing through “Ho” (Ho – Crake Ho Farm) turn left to pass the third place of worship.  At the T junction turn right, doing this means you have gone through ‘P’ twice.

Ignore the white at SH113 and then turn right remaining on a yellow, passing through the ‘EE’ of Low Green to go to the end of the regularity at 210 579 at the cross roads,

Q12: Taking the SH91 as the first what is the third SH on route?   113.

Q13: What is the name of the only farm the route passes through? Crake Ho Farm

Q14: What is the name of the last property you pass before the end of the regularity? Dicken Dyke (last named property)

 

Table Top Rally No. 3

Download the route instructions here

OS Map 99, Edition February 2016, works on version C3

OS Map 104. Edition February 2016

Throughout the event, consider all roads unless explicitly told otherwise.

Regularity Three

RS3 to IRTC3.1

RS3 228 674 ½ depart WSW

Pass through the following spot heights only;       254         278         307         141

Do not go through ‘igh’

IRTC3.1 is at SH141

Questions RS3 to IRTC3.1

Q1: What letters does the route between RS3 and IRTC3.1 pass through?      ………………..

Q2: How many Red dots are there between the RS3 and SH278?  ………..

Q3: How many Mile Posts between RS3 and IRTC3.1? ……………………….

Q4: How many places of worship? ………………………

IRTC3.1 to IRTC3.2

IRTC3.1 is at SH141

Go through four green dots,

64            63            63

Pass through a further 19 green dots to approach ‘th’ from the NNW.

Questions IRTC3.1 to IRTC3.2

Q5: Which bank does the route go through twice? ………………….

Q6: Name the three types of ‘Tourist Information’ you pass to the west of the route?  ………..

Q7: What is 668? ……………………….

Q8: Does the correct route pass to the south of North Owl? ..Yes  /  No………..

IRTC3.2 to IRTC3.3

IRTC3.2 is at ‘th’

er              im            m

End of Regularity at SH91

Questions IRTC3.2 and 3.3

Q9: How many spot heights does the route pass through between ‘m’ and ‘m’?      …………………

Q10: What is the name of the farm after ‘im’ ……………….

Q11: On the second ‘other road’ used in this section, what type of wood is to the west of the road? ……………………….

IRTC3.3 to IRTC3.4

IRTC3.3 is at SH91.  Coloured roads only

Pass two (  and three + and through P twice to finish at 210 579

The route may pass other map features or through other letters.

Questions IRTC3.3 and 3.4

Q11: Taking the SH91 as the first what is the third SH on route?      …………………. ..

Q12: What is the name of the only farm the route passes through? ……………..

Q13: What is the name of the last property you pass before the end of the regularity? ………….

Regularity 4, will start at Turpin Lair

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Table Top Two Answers

RS2 to IRTC2.1

Tulips look so easy and the style can vary from simple straight lines as used in this example to more flowery tulips which better reflect the road layout and junction.

I also understand from an entrant’s husband, that it doesn’t make it easy to work out tulips when you print the instructions out landscape and your wife ends minus a few tulips!

We start to the west of Masham and depart in a WNW direction on the yellow towards Fearby, before spot height (SH) 151 turn left at the crossroads, ignore the whites on the left and right, at the T junction turn left towards Swinton.

The next three instructions made up a triangle, as you entered Swinton, take the slot left, then T junction turn right and then ignore the road your were originally on which joins us from the right.

Ignore the next left, pass through SH 123 and take the next right before the telephone, pass Quarry House and ignore the right  coming in (8th tulip), you will then pass over the first of the down arrows >.

Ignore the next right in and then turn left (tulip 10), the yellow straight ahead turns into a white but we did not say ignore dead ends. Ignore the next right and then we pass through our second and third downhill arrows >, all the other on the route < towards the direction of travel which indicates you will be going uphill.

Into Ilton and turn left at the T junction, at SH224 turn right and then take the left to follow the tulips the long way around the Ilton Grange triangle, used regularly on many events including the Rally of the Tests. At the T turn right and then left at the crossroads back onto the road with National Trail markers®.

Carry on heading in s southerly direction to the T junction turn right and ignore the white straight on and follow the road round to the left, where it is part of the Ripon Rowell Walk passing the fourth downhill >, keep following the road round past Bagwith House until you enter Kirby Malzeard where we have our final tulip which to turn left off the narrow yellow onto the wider yellow into the town and ITRC2.1.

Questions & Answers; RS2 to IRTC2.1

Q1: How many down arrows does the route pass through?  Four

Q2: What is the total of the spot heights passed through on the correct route?  443 (96 + 123 + 224)

Q3: How many Granges touch or have entrances on the route? Four (Ilton Grange Farm, High Bramley Grange, Low Bramley Grange, Biggin Grange)

Q4: What do the red diamond shapes represent? National Trail

IRTC2.1 to IRTC2.2

Leave the control, go to the cross roads and turn right on the yellow to cross grid line 74 heading south, take the first right slot towards Laverton (answer to Q6) down to the T junction where we cross 23.

The next instruction was 139 which is a SH so turn right at the aforementioned  T junction, pass the telephone and at the next junction, go straight on, ignoring the left, follow the road round to the right, heading back towards Kirby M.

We now have to cross grid line 74 twice, so take the first left before Kirby and departing back out of the square, the grid line has been crossed twice and it the immediately crosses grid line 22, SH185 is on the same road just after crossing GL23 staying on the same road, before we reach  Swetton we have a down hill, SH155 and two up hills all on the same road.

Remain on this road to the next junction, the next two instructions are a 3 and 2, if you look closely the 3 of SH273 and 2 of SH289 touch the road indicating the correct direction is to turn left at the junction at SH273 towards Stubbings.

At the T shortly after Stubbings, you will see if you turn left after about 0.17 miles a + touches the road and the last instruction in this section was SH239. To get to SH239 you had to turn right at the next two junctions joining the 4m + wide yellow on the way towards Coal Hill. SH239 being the next IRTC.

Q5:  What is the total of the grid lines you cross between spot height 155 and +? ..203 (20, 19, 73. 72, 19)

Q6: Name the places where the route touches or passes through at one or more letters?.. Laverton

 

Questions & Answers; IRTC2.2 to IRTC2.3

Depart SWish from SH239, turn left at SH257 into High Skelding, and slot left towards SH202, carry straight on an pass through  the ‘Red’ of Redmires and then turn first tight to pass through the ‘ir’ of Redmires.

Carry on towards High Grantly passing the telephone, we are now looking for ‘ate’?

This is a grid ref 254 698, looking at the map do we turn right at the next junction and go in an anticlockwise direction towards Horsley Gate Fm, or head north.  The next instruction being <<, perhaps they at the >> near SH143 on the B road?  There are no others, therefore, the correct way is ignore the right and pass through SH172, ignore the next left and then turn right towards Low Grantley, ignore both lefts remaining on the wider yellow and pass through Horsley Gate Fm (probably the shorter route anyway) and down to the T junction with the B Road.

We know where the << is, therefore , turn right and pass through SH104 <<  and SH143, ignore the next right and then turn left onto the yellow towards Sawley where you will pass the second phone box and if we ignore the left off, we will have passed both +(places of worship).

The ‘S’ is that of Sawley Moor Farm, to reach it take the first right turn on leaving the village continue on this road passing through the S of Sawley until you join the B road and the end off the regularity.

 

Questions & Answers; IRTC2.2 to IRTC2.3

Q7: What are the numbers of the B roads the route uses or crosses?  B6265.

Q8: After ‘ate’ but before the next spot height what is the next abbreviation on the route?  Mile Post (MP)

Q9: What is the total of the third and sixth spot height on the route? The route restarted at 239, total = 336 (193 & 143)

Tie break – based on an average speed of 30 mph, how long should it take you to complete regularity two? …I calculated the route as 20.56 miles:  41 minutes 7 seconds, the closest answer given being 41 minutes

 

Leaderboard after round one

Entrant

Irwin	David	40
Leuchars	Nick	35
Cheek	Phil	35
Starr	David	35
Bloxidge	Paul	35
Thompson	Graham	35
Goodings	Kevin	35
Wilcocks	Tim	30
Thompson	Mick	30
Hanson	Rosemary	30
Cross	Paul	30
Jagger	Peter	30
Brown	David	30
Dresner	Richard	30
Martin	Clive / Anjil	30
Grove	Clare	30
Mackenzie	Colin	30
Cowling	George	30
Robinson	Mike	25
Wilson	Joe	25
Jackson	Ernie	20
Hazleton	Ian	15

Round one Answers

TT1 the route and answers.

TC1 to TC2

We start at Spot Height 152 at the cross roads on the A684 by Stoop House Farm, set off south down the  yellow, over the railway bridge, straight on at the cross roads (four green dots so far) towards Ulshaw ignoring two yellows off to the right.

In Ulshaw before crossing the river turn left on to the smaller yellow, passing to the right of the church and follow the road passing through the ‘w’, ignore the yellow off to the right  passing to the left of Dolly Bog Wood and slot left on to the next yellow heading towards Hutton Hill.

At the cross roads turn right onto the larger yellow, as the road bears left, take the right off onto the smaller yellow and keep following the green dots (ten – the green dot at the first cross road by Hutton Hill does touch the route and counts), ignore the first right and continue towards the cross road.

At the crossroads you turn right, passing through the ‘n’ and ‘g’ of Thornton Grange, your first N (because we did not include spot height 144 in the instructions you would avoid it).  Carry on the current yellow to the T junction and again turn left passing through your second ‘n’ at Thornton Seward.

At the next crossroad turn left heading towards the T junction at Cocked Hat and turn right. Continue on the small yellow ignoring the small yellow coming in from the right up to where the small yellow joins the larger yellow. Even though you are going straight on this will probably be a give way as you are coming off the smaller road.

Carry on down the larger yellow ignoring the left off and passing through spot height 87 down to the T junction and turn right passing over two more green dots to the cross roads spot height 63 where the control is.

Questions TC1 to TC2

Q1: How many green dots does the route traverse …16 (4 + 10 + 2)

Q2: How many N’s (upper or lower case) touch the route?  2 (Thornton Grange 188 883 ½. Thornton Steward 185 870 ½)

Q3: How many times do you cross (under or over) a railway? 1 (146 901)

TC2 to TC3

At the cross road with spot height 63, turn right heading in a SSW direction towards Cowling (on the left before Cowling we pass the entrance to High Scroggs House) and through Burrill (place of worship on the left and phone box on the right) keeping on the smaller yellow until you come to the junction with the bigger yellow as you are leaving Burrill, and turn right.

Passing through the small ‘a’ in Rand Hill, carry on toward Thornton Watlass, on the right are three whites which allows access to Pasture House.

In Thornton Watlass turn left and left taking the short way around (SWR) the triangle, passing your second telephone and through spot height 104, at the next cross roads go straight on over the B road passing the entrance to Highfield House on the right.  Carry on down to the T junction with the wider yellow and turn right and more or less immediately right again back on to the narrower yellow heading back towards the B6268 to the end of the first regularity.

 

Answers

Q4: How many places of worship do you pass? One (239 873)

Q5: How many telephone boxes do you pass? Two (239 872 & 236 854)

Q6: Name the Houses which can be accessed from the route? Three (High Scroggs Ho; 237 887, Pasture Ho; 238 861 & Highfield House; 250 850 ½)

 

As with any rally it is important to read the instructions and follow the instructions,

 

Leg two of Six:

All answers to be returned by 31st of October 2016

 

HERO Table Top Rally – August 2016 – LEG ONE of  SIX

Downloadable copies of the ASR’s and Route Instructions are available below this month’s section, as always, please read all the notes!

Supplementary Regulations – HERO Table Top Rallies

 1.     Announcement

HERO will organise a series of six Table Top Rallies commencing August 2016.

2.     Eligibility

The event is open to all members of HERO and readers of HEROICS

3.     Entries

To enter the table top championship you must submit your answers to the Clerk of the Course by the publication date of the following Heroics.

Heroics is normally published on the 21^st of the month, this is subject to change.

4.     Route

Landranger Maps; 99 Northallerton & Ripon, and 104 Leeds & Bradford, publication date 24/2/2016.

5.     Classes

There will be two classes, Beginners and Novices;

Definition of Novice: An individual who has not had two or more finishes in the top 15 places overall of a rally of the following types and having more than 30 entries;

a)     Any rally for which an MSA competition licence was required;

b)     Any road event in the UK or abroad, which included time regularity sections. This includes HERO, Classic Rally Association, tours and local club events etc.

Definition of Beginner: A crew in which no member has previously competed in more than three competitive road, historic or regularity rallies (including 12-car rallies, but excluding treasure hunts and touring assemblies)

6.     Route instructionsThe route will be defined by a series of instructions which will be published in Heroics and on the HERO website. These will contain instructions applicable to that table top.

The Navigation will be fairly straight forward (Spot Heights, Grid Lines, Herringbones, Tulips, and Map Features etc).

Unless otherwise stated each Route Card should be plotted using only the given information and in the order given, implied or necessary to solve the Route Card. The shortest route consistent with this information should be plotted between each Route Card’s Start Control and Finish Control. Where a particular map feature is used solely on the Route Card, e.g. Spot Heights, then all other similar features must be avoided.

7.     Equipment

Pen, pencils, magnifying glass, rubber and romer.   

8.     Answer Submission

Each Route Card will have a series of questions (Route Checks) to ensure that the correct route has been followed (Spot Heights, junctions passed through, map features passed through etc), the answers are to be submitted to the Clerk of the Course, to evidence you have gone the correct route, rather than submitting  a map, for the first five rounds.

The final event which will use a mixture of all the navigation you have learned on the previous Table Tops as well as answering the route checks you should submit a copy of your map(s) showing the plotted route.

Each event will include a tie breaker.

Only one answer should be given for each route check, multiple answers will be deemed incorrect.

If you feel the question is ambiguous or has multiple answers, record details of your ‘ambiguous’ ones as comments when submitting your answers.

For the final event which will use a mixture of all the navigation you have learned on the previous Table Tops a copy of your maps showing the plotted route together with your answers will be required.

9.     Point Scoring

5 points will be given for each correct Route Check answer.

7 ½ points will be given for answering the tie breaker question correctly.

Zero points will be scored for no answer.

If your answers are received after the closing date, 25 points will be deducted from your total score accrued on all events for being OTL.

10.  Officials

 

Clerk of the Course;    Les McGuffog  t: 07739 127815          e: lesmcguffog@gmail.com

11.  Results 

Provisional results will be published in Heroics and on the HERO website as soon as possible following the end of the event.

12.  Queries

Competitors should address any queries concerning the route and / or their results to the Clerk of the Course.

Replies from or on behalf of the Clerk of the Course will be returned to the competitor as soon as possible.

13.  Miscellaneous

This event is meant to provide a bit of light hearted fun, with a bit of a competitive edge, mirroring as close as possible what to expect on a navigational or regularity rally.

The navigation will start off by being very, very straight forward but will get more thought provoking as the series progresses.

A vehicle is an optional extra for this event, however, as a final tie decider please feel free to submit a picture of a vehicle competing on the event. Let your imagination run riot but don’t forget that the vehicle will have to fit on your OS map on a table or desk somewhere in your house!

 

So here we go, you have between now and the 30th of September to return your first route card to the clerk of the course.

Table Top Rally No. 1

OS Landranger Map 99, Edition February 2016, works on version C3

Throughout the event, use Coloured Roads Only (CRO) unless explicitly told otherwise.

TC1 to TC2

TC1 146903 depart SSW

Via spot heights in order;

104 158 163 87 63 (TC2)

Questions TC1 to TC2

Q1: How many green dots does the route traverse ………………………..

Q2: How many N’s (upper or lower case) touch the route?………………

Q3: How many times do you cross (under or over) a railway?…………

TC2 to TC3

TC2 sh63, depart SSW

Cross the following grid lines in order;

89 88 24 87 24 86 24 25 85 25 84 83 24

TC3  238  827 ½

Q4: How many places of worship do you pass?……………….

Q5: How many telephone boxes do you pass? ……………..

Q6: Name the Houses which can be accessed from the route? …………………..

Drive safely to the rest halt in Masham and enjoy a pint of Theakston or Black Sheep. Submit your answers to Les McGuffog <lesmcguffog@gmail.com> by the 30th September latest.

Attachments: Download the Route Instruction HERE  Download the ASR’s HERE

 

Getting started

Thanks for the response you have given to the Table Top Rally series mentioned in the last HEROICS.

In August, we will publish regulations for the event along with some final guidance to allow the series to start in September. For the series, you will need Ordnance Survey Landranger 1:50,000 maps 99 (Northallerton, Ripley and Pateley Bridge) and 104 (Leeds, Bradford, Harrogate and Ilkley) latest editions, these are available from the HERO Store  The series is free to enter, all the first five rounds will be conducted via HEROICS and email, the last round will require you to send your maps in for adjudication. It is open to all HERO Members, Premier or free, if you are not a member.

It would be a good idea to purchase these maps as soon as possible to familiarise yourself with the area and also for what Clerk of the Course, Les McGuffog, has in store for you in the following paragraph.

So who is the event aimed at?

Primarily it is aimed at Novices and those who would like to start out in navigation without the pressure of sitting in the hot seat, there will be awards for the top three competitors and we are pleased to announce that the Basic Roamer Company have been very generous and agreed to supply the overall winner with a brand new ‘Roamerlite C’  battery powered poti / map magnifier with a value of £119.95! There will be other awards for second and third, these will be detailed in next month’s HEROICS along with the regulations as mentioned.

We welcome anybody to have a go and register for the series, however, overall awards will only be available to either Beginners or Novices as detailed in the regulations next month.

Clerk of the Course, Les McGuffog, has penned an introduction that is shown below and will continue next month with more examples from our forthcoming Table Top series.

Table top rallies became more popular in the late 80’s when the rules for night events changed, events were no longer pre-plot and organisers had to find new ways of trying to keep the average speed of event down. So to help not only experienced navigators and those new to the sport many motor clubs started to run regular table top rallies. Competitors had the chance to learn the methods organisers may use to define a road rallies route whilst sat in more convivial surroundings rather than whilst sat in the hot seat and worse still at night. Club night table tops were as competitive as any other motoring event – and being timed – not only had the crew to plot the route as accurately as possible but also as quickly as possible. Crews accrued penalties based on both time and the accuracy of their route, this could be measured in two ways, either checking the route on the map or asking the crew to complete a series of questions about the route.

The latter method is how we will be establishing how accurate your route is and time, well that is dictated by you having to have your answers to us before the next HEROICS is published!  The aim of the HERO table top series is to demystify some of the types of navigation used on other HERO events as well as others, giving you the confidence to try an Intermediate, Advanced or even Expert HERO event in the future.

Abbreviations

There are a number of standard abbreviations which you should be aware of. The ones used vary slightly from rally to rally, but a careful organiser will list them in the Final Instructions. Check the FI’s carefully when you receive them; the abbreviations may be different to the ones you’re used to.

Some of the standard abbreviations usually used are:

AR: All Roads B: Brown BK: Black BL: Blue CRO: Coloured Roads Only ETL: Electricity Transmission Line FL: Fork Left FR: Fork Right GI: Graticule Intersection

GL: Grid Line GS Grid Square IGR: Ignore Gated Roads Km: kilometres M: metres MR: Map Reference PC: Passage Control SH: Spot Height SO: Straight On

SR: Side Road TC: Time Control TJ: T-Junction TL: Turn Left TR: Turn Right W: White XR: Crossroads Y: Yellow

Over the next couple of issues there will be more guidance to help you understand what a table top is and the types of navigation which may be used, these may include:

SPOT HEIGHTS; are those points that the OS has measured to be exactly that height (in metres) above sea level. They are marked on the map thus: .123 always with a small dot marking the exact point on a map. On a rally we are normally only interested in those spot heights which are on a road, however, occasionally these may be in a lay-by or on a white (unclassified) road.

Only those spot heights where the dot is on the road should be considered.

 

You may be asked to pass through the following spot heights:

157         172         241         226         175

If the shortest route passes through another spot height that is not listed and the instruction says something like “pass through these spot heights only” you should work out a route to avoid it. Always look very carefully at the location of the dot, as it may be just off of a junction, thereby not requiring the most obvious route to pass through it or avoid it. Variations on this theme may give you the spot heights as a continuous string:

157172241226175

Or even mix spot heights with grid line numbers in the string.

15717224122621175

Spot heights could also be given as additions and subtractions from the previous number: Click the map below for a large, scalable copy.

157         +15          +69          -15           – 51 

For the above examples, look at the map extract and work out the route leaving from Spot Height 169 which is to the north of Beckwithshaw.
The grid of the map can be used to define the route by the crossing of gridlines. This example is simply a list of the numbers of the gridlines across which your route must travel in order.Gridlines 

53            26            25            24            23            53            22            21            54

These numbers could be given to you as a continuous string:

532625242353222154

or with a spot height mixed in to confuse you:

531722625242353222154

Some organisers will use this method when you’re in an area of the map where the northing and easting gridline numbers are similar!

Look at the example map again and try to plot this route starting in the same place.

How many telephone boxes have you passed?

What difference would it have made if the grid lines used were?

53            26            25            24            23            53            22            53            53            21            54

How many telephone boxes now?

If you look carefully after sh 226, if you go straight on, the yellow crosses grid line 53 twice.

Answer = Two (this would be a typical table top question to ensure you have taken the correct route)

Road Colours

Roads on the Landranger 1:50000 maps that you’ll generally be using come in five colours:

• Green,
• Red,
• Brown,
• Yellow, and
• White.

The other one, not used so often, is blue for motorways.

The letters are the colours of all the pieces of road that meet at each junction. By an unwritten convention, the first letter in each group is the colour you enter on, and the last is the one you leave on.

Each junction on the route is described in terms of the colours of the roads involved.  The entry road is given first and the exit road last. So the instruction would be something like:

BBB         BYB         BBY        YYy          yBB           

Going back to our map, we know we are starting on a Brown road and at the first junction continue on a Brown road.

Do you turn left or go straight on?

What is the next instruction Brown, Yellow and Brown.   So we could go left or straight on as the

next junction both ways is also Brown, Yellow and Brown. Remember you leave on the last colour.

If you went left at the first junction, and stayed on the Brown or took the first Yellow off to the right (after having turned left onto the brown), you would come to a crossroads we have no instruction for a cross roads so that cannot be correct. This also applies if you went straight on at the first BBB junction and took the left off at the second BYB junction.

So we have stayed on the Brown and are now at the third junction, a choice Brown or Yellow.  Let us look at the next instruction, three yellows, the brown doesn’t turn into a yellow, so we must have to turn right onto the yellow.

Why do we have a small ‘y’ at the next junction?  Normally that is to show we are using a narrower road, can you see that on our map?  At spot height 226, the road off to the right is narrower (less than 4m wide – have a look at the OS map legend.)

So do we go straight on or turn right, as again we are aiming to finish at spot height 175, see if you can figure out the last two instructions?

Coloured Roads Only: Often abbreviated with the acronym CRO. If this appears on the route instruction it means you can ignore any white roads on the map when plotting your route. When the organiser intends you to use white roads you might see AR – All Roads, CAR – “Consider All Roads” or MUW – “May Use Whites”, but usually the absence of CRO on the card is enough. A white is the type of road labelled as “Other road, drive or track” in the Landranger key. These aren’t always white on the map; they’re actually uncoloured, e.g. so one that runs through a forest will be shown in light green, but they’re always called whites. Even the tiniest farm driveway shown in this manner counts as a white.

So we guess that you’d like to see where you should have gone with the main clues? Click here to see the answer.

That’s all for this month, come back next month for the regs and another taster to whet your appetite!

 

A what??? A Table Top Rally?

Now to those of you who are new to the sport this may sound like that we’ve gone a little crazy and started running our collection of Matchbox vehicles around an Ordnance Survey map – don’t worry we’re perfectly sane!

Over the last few months we have been compiling some advice from Martyn Taylor and Andy Pullan in our navigator’s monthly teach-in, this has been designed to allow those of you who would like to move on from tulip style events and tackle some of the more traditional forms of navigation. Of course, you can always compete in more challenging events to gain experience, but a great way is to familiarise yourself with the route presentations in your own home – without a driver yelling at you for instructions on which way to go.

From September, we will be running a Table Top league aimed at beginners and novices to allow them to get to grips with navigation without any pressure, there will be some prizes, DVD’s, Umbrellas, Mugs and maybe something more for the winner. The next couple of months we will detail just how and when all this will happen, what you need to take part (basically, an OS map, Romer and pencil with sharpener and rubber), the first couple of editions will be purely tutorial and allow you to get your head around things and then when the darker nights pull in, we can start to test you and the league will go live.

Running this for HEROICS is Les McGuffog who is essentially Clerk of the Course, Les is a very capable navigator with many years’ experience and has kindly offered to be co-ordinator in chief aided by HERO Media Chap Kev Haworth. We will be enlisting some of the country’s finest navigators to answer your queries.

If you’d like to enter or register but not be part of the league, drop us a line and  keep your eye on HEROICS from next month as we progress.