Optimum Balanced course for PY

We generally have triangle sausage course at Hythe, but that doesn't necessarily limit you if you can influence the rescue boat setting the course, so make the reaches just tight enough to prevent the Merlin using their kite and the beat one sided but with the best side set out in an adverse tide so they have to think about wether to go out there or not.

Or, if it's blowing marginal Contender weather, make the course long and deep so they can't wire downwind, and the longer the better to keep the lasers back in their boxes. But the Merlin might rear up with a course like that so only set it when they're on rescue boat duty.

On the lake, there is no course option to stop Miracles winning save a long tight reach with not much beating and plenty of wind shadows for them to get stuck in.

It's tricky, trying to get a course to suit you, but after a while you come to work it out, then you get in the lead after a blinding start and first beat..

Then you miss a mark.

Nothing is perfect but I reckon what I probably incorrectly call Olympic (triangle, sausage for one lap) gives most a crack at a leg they like.

Originally posted by ClubRacer The problem is that reaches are very boat specific but runs and beats are almost completely neutral to the majority  something like a 'P' as long as the reaches are kept small(proportionately so) to the beat and run. Obviously this benefitsp the smaller boats and completely stuffs the Cats

How are runs not of benefit (at least on a confined lake) to either symmetric spinnakers boats or shroudless singlehanders?

The problem is that reaches are very boat specific but runs and beats are almost completely neutral to the majority 

This of course is the course I set, other OOD's set their own course of course