Projection 762 IRC handicap

Having recently consulted a sailmaker (of no little repute) here on the east coast, and comissioned him to suplly new sails; we have now measured the boat and compared what can fit against the very old sails that came with the boat (seems that they had srunk over the ten years since they were made (albeit they have only been used for about 5 years) Our 2007 rating came about due to the very short luff of the jib measured at easter. No doubt we will see a revised IRC certicate number more in line with every other 762 once the new sails are made and measured.  I shall be asking the rating office to recalculate once I know the numbers myself......

Stephan

The objective is to have more boat speed, the summer breezes are predoninantly 10-15 knots. I was wondering what the effect of taking 100-200 kilos out of the keel rather than the bulb at the bottom.

This would help us not stick in the light stuff and get us planing earlier but i think would not effect the rating too much.

Do you find it difficult to compete with larger yachts on handicap?

Peter

if anything keep the weight in the keel, reduce your pole length and spinnaker size (about 40m2) and reduce headsail sizethen get re-rated.  this and more is all said in the thread tim has pointed out, unfortunately your gonna have to play catch up and read the whole thing to to get the best bits of info.

hope it all helps.