Bloody Mary Sailjuice

Handicaps aren't really very meaningful in pursuit results. They only have a limited relationship to start times because the granularity is greater, and I'm sure the start times are published somewhere.

OK, but having handicaps, or indeed start times or elapsed times, in the results would give a better idea idea of how boats fared against each other on the water.  

Originally posted by Medway Maniac I'd be interested to see, for example, how quickly the Aero 5 got round the course compared to the Radials and the D-Zero

How would you know? You don't know how far apart the boats finish in a pursuit. You might guess that 35, 36, 37 all finished within a narrow spread of time, but you could be wrong. And then at the BM IIRC they use multiple finish lines at marks, which makes it even more confusing, so 35 might have finished after 36, but having sailed an extra leg, but was 2 seconds or maybe 30 seconds ahead of 36 and round the next mark...

Sorry 15 mins behind radials

Originally posted by AlexM If the tracker is to believed the Aero never made up any ground on the radials (the tracked boats (Martin/Cockrill & Barton). http://traclive.dk/events/event_20130725_QueenMaryS/index.php?raceid=2095cac0-7adc-0132-fe74-10bf48d758ce

Sounds plausible to me. Cockerill is a masters world champ in radials and has won nats in 300/Blaze etc so in the same boat as the Aero sailor I would expect him to take out a minute or two over a race like that if in equal boats, and whilst the GL PY difference is pretty big - 1145 vs 1065, I dare say the speed difference is half that, and the Aero 5 will end up much closer to the (IMO very soft) radial number at say 1100