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Fraggle View Drop Down
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    Posted: 13 Jan 12 at 3:56pm

At my old club it was 50% plus one to count.
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There's no right answer, but these days relatively few people will succeed in staying married if they go sailing every weekend, whilst if you're already divorced most likely the only time you get to see your kids is every other weekend. Thus relatively few sailors can possibly manage more than 50% of a weekly series...

We use 50% rounded up for number of discards, so half or one race less than half to count. It is difficult though, but these days I think for many people no amount of "encouragement" would enable them to get to many more races.

Edited by JimC - 13 Jan 12 at 6:34pm
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In your average race series at your club what percentage of discards are you allowed.  I was just looking at last year's yearbook for my club it seems on average you only need to complete half the races to get a final position.  

I suppose if you make it too high you might put people off because they can't all commit the same amount of time but I'd have expected it to be more than 50%.  
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