New dinghy handicap with lap

Only at the coast in lasers with a good leebow technique!

We run our Wednesday night races as a pursuit with start times adjusted to nearest 15 seconds. We all finish at the same time and if the wind has died the safety boat tows the boats in that are furthest from shore so everyone ends up in the bar together. Far more sociable and simples to run and understand.





Edited by The Moo - 03 May 14 at 6:51am

I have now read all these pages (14) and I think old Duch has a point.........."Forum united", my a*se.

Gareth T beat me to it.

Dches, all your examples you've provided highlight that your race officers are frankly useless and need some training. Rather than coming up with baseless equations whereby you try to fudge your results why not invest the time to talk to your race officers and get them to run the races properly.

The race officer should be able to finish everyone in the race over a time period significantly less than the time for the slowest person to sail a lap, and therefore everyone within reason should be sailing in similar conditions. You might end up with someone benefiting over one or two legs in a lap but its unlikely to have a huge impact when you average it all out.

We're not saying how racing is run at your club is right. because it isn't. We're just not agreeing that your solution is the correct one. If you can't get your club to run an average lap race properly, then how on earth are you supposed to get them to change the formula 9to one so patently broken)?