Today I believe I sailed my boat to its handicap

Lost by 6 secs, but only because I went the wrong way on the 2nd leg, had that not happened the natural order would have been restored.

My handicap 1024. Winning boat on handicap Laser 1088, Over the water Hornet, Contender,4000, me, then Lasers.

Other boats Hornet, Contender, Lasers 1 & 4000,

Wind Offshore Northerly 0-7 mph, tide 1-3 kts.

It would be interesting to me if you could all document when you felt the same, i.e. you sailed your particular boat to its handicap and against whom your were racing at the time, oh and wether they happened to have floats attached to the top of their masts.

Edited by iGRF - 05 Oct 14 at 5:40pm

My boat often sails to handicap. Just wish I was in it at the time...

My boat sails to her handicap all the time. Maybe I should lend her to someone else who would be less of a handicap...

Well another Blaze showed up this week in the hands of our better Phantom sailor, I fully expected a thrashing from him but he got wrong sided as the big badly started fast boats came through in the iffy shifty conditions.

But I was pleased to keep them all at bay for a while having lost the start yet watched as they all made classic wrong decisions in shifts and the other Phantom and I rounded 1 & 2 then he also got stuffed at a mark whereas my lake training kept the inside line on the buoy open and full water rights at the end of the 1st reach, and he got big boat buried, at the end of the next beat I still held it overall, so immediately had a snr moment sailed the top reach again instead of going down the run...

Originally posted by robin34024 I think i usually sail the streaker to or above its handicap, however even after 14 or so points being taken off its PY in the past 2 years, it is a bit of a bandit on the fairly small lake I sail on. I suspect the handicap is about right on open water, but nothing matches it in really shifty conditions.

You can say that again, the day I beat a Streaker on the lake I sail at and it hasn't happened yet despite 6 minute leads, I really will consider I've sail it to its handicap, but I don't think it's ever going to happen, you could bring the nations finest, put them in that EPS and me in a Streaker and I guarantee they'd lose.