Embarrassed L2 Sailor

I'll apologise in advance, the subject is the PY list. I get bored reading about the subject..........but I have a specific issue.

We've had a gap year because I got fed up with the whole scene but anyway: Me and the wife have returned in our L2. Even before our first race I suspected that the current new PY of 1065 gave the boat a severe case of banditry, and I was right. We had our first race this weekend, we were rusty as hell. taking ages to settle into each new leg and after each tack/gybe........excluding a single handed Hobie 16 (Well Done that man) we won the chocolates. We did celebrate but I'm now left with that hollow victory feeling. We beat folk that we should never beat, they are much better sailors than us.......when I say "much" I mean "MUCH" 

I am normally an advocate of handicap racing and I have great respect for the PY system but in this specific case it is severely wrong. I now sail a bandit and I'm embarrassed.

So my question is:
With a boat that has been extremely popular and sailed by skilled sailors in the past.

Edited by transient - 07 Apr 15 at 1:14pm

Originally posted by Rupert I would say because that is how the system works. At what point would you decide to stop the changes for a particular class? My suggestion would be for you to approach your club and request they use the old handicap to score your results.

Edited by transient - 07 Apr 15 at 1:37pm

As far as I can tell, there's no allowance in the number-crunching for CSF. The system assumes that everyone is Joe Average, doesn't it? In theory this all evens itself out because the muppets balance the rock stars, but at a local level this won't happen, the sample just ain't big enough.

You do need to talk to them first! And compare results.

Originally posted by JimC Have you recalculated the results on the old handicap to see what would have happened? Handicaps rarely make a big difference, maybe you just threw a six on every shift (and used up all your luck for the entire season!)

 ....No I haven't recalculated but the RO did say that the results were very close. I'm confident enough in my racing abilities to know when luck may have played a part, well most of the time anyway. Just done a quick calc (so i may be wrong, happy to be corrected) but the extra 30 points that have been added to the L2  since I've been away make 49 seconds difference in a 30 min race, this is one hell of a lot.