Sail Juice 2013-14 Series

well I'm sure the data gets uploaded into the national numbers... but of course that is nothing different from a localised handicap.

Edited by yellowwelly - 11 Nov 13 at 9:42am

The facts cannot be equally applied simply because there are varying amounts of data from each class, and no way of knowing the variation of skills between results sets. If every club using the system sent in returns, then any influence from the results from the sailjuice series would have vanishingly small influence. For all I know, it does.

For all its faults, I'm am totally unconvinced that any other system suggested on here would be anything like as accurate.

What bothers me about the sailjuice system is that they mix it with the normal one, so a class new to the event will sail off the standard Pn, but a regular boat will have been changed, even though they might be very similar in speed and handicap.

Not that handicaps are the reason I won't be going - I'd rather get cold nearer to home.

Originally posted by alstorer   Could we stick to facts?

Edited by yellowwelly - 11 Nov 13 at 9:06am

Originally posted by getafix Oh dear, it's that time of year again when this forum does it's best to represent these events as awful racing, plagued by cheats and bandits and ruined by the <perceived> troubles of the PY system.... yet somehow, loads of people manage to go, sail, have a good time and register again to go the next year. .... what could possibly be the right picture?

Well for my part, it's not just all of the above, it is the knock on effect the gerrymandering of the PY system has on us for the rest of the year and it's happening again if you care to study their anarchic calculations. Which you cannot help but come to the conclusion there is an element of trade and professional bias in play which suggests to the casual observer an element of financially induced well corruption is perhaps too strong a word but lets say brand favouritism or cronyism . Now, it may not be and I'd be the first to proffer an apology were it not the case, but the extreme moves of certain brands/boats against the totally static nature of others does nothing other than to convince me that all is not as it should be.

That's why I think it sucks.

Edited by iGRF - 11 Nov 13 at 8:45am

I can't do Draycote because I'm on coaching duty at Hunts, otherwise I hope to do as many as my crocked knee will allow, either in the D1 or a vareo.

I went oop north last year for the Brass Monkey  and have to say the weather was truly grim, as you would expect so close to the Pole.  However, the event itself was superb; great northern hospitality,  well organised, excellent clubhouse and facilities, friendly people.  Well worth the trek.