The RS100 Owners Thread

Urr Rich you should add that if you do choose to use the different PY (we dont want to discourage anyone from sailing in any conditions) you get a different set of results for that PY as yu would if you used a different boat.

Originally posted by Nigel_V At my club we have just introduced a new rule. Helms of boats with more than one PY (e.g more than one rig) have to declare what there fastest configuration will be for that season and then sail using that PY even if they put the smaller rig on for stronger wind conditions. The thinking behind it was that people fit a smaller rig because on the day, they think that will give them the best result. To also give them a PY bonus seemed unfair. Equally, if someone chooses to sail with the smaller rig all season, they get the PY to go with it. This was the fairest systerm we could come up with so we will see how it goes.

That is the only 'Fair' way to do it, as i see it anyway!

It shouldn't actually make any difference to OOD's at club level as they
only need record a sail number and a time. The handicap adjustment is
then applied later when the results are calculated and the onus is then on
the sailor to make sure he signs on with the right PY entered.

Would be sensible to make sure that whoever works out the results
knows that there are two PY's for the RS100 (so they dont apply a blanket
PY to cover both fleets).

Where the different colour numbers will be useful is on the water with
other RS100's and you will know if you need to be ahead of them or not -
although the rigs actually look quite different and if the fleets get that
big it will be amazing anyway !

I am presuming that the sail number applies to the HULL and there wont
be 10.4's and 8.2s with the same sail number on different boats ? How
does this work in the Laser / Radial fleet ?

Edited by ChrisC

A few years ago there was a spate of Mirrors using white sail numbers, it got banned as race officers could not see the numbers when the sail was backlit, if you are going for white numbers make sure they are visible.

In my club handicap series it is the helm that matters, results I get in any boat all get counted together so in theory I can choose a Phantom in light winds and a Radial in high winds. This doesnt lead to the arms race that you may expect as not everyone has the luxury of multiple boats. I had assumed others clubs were similar, it seems I was wrong!

In terms of finishing the race there should never be two sails with the same number anyway so the colour of the number is irrelvant, perhaps all the numbers could be preceeded by a letter such as A or B or by a number a bit like the car numberplates are now with 09/59 both being the same year.

If not then the numbers can easily be worked out using a scoring program which would know which numbers were associated to which rig.