Club racing, multiple entries.

I haven't come across anyone changing boats for advantage. A fair few of us at the club have a doublehander and a singlehander and if our crews aren't available we take our singlehanders out. We had a few Laser sailors who switched down a rig size on windy days but to be honest they aren't Laser circuit standard sailors so it's good just keep them on the water having fun, and they probably won't be in the chocolates anyway. I haven't come across any obvious cheating. The only thing you have to be careful with is that before you submit the results to the RYA pys you need to create separate entries for each boat or it messes up the returns. I did ask the sailwave guys to look at doing an update that allowed for this but it's low down on the properties list.

Originally posted by piglet Moral maze: Crew changes are generally accepted Crew/Helm swap over might be accepted Different helms same boat? Different boats same helm? Craiggo, do some competitors use this to advantage?

Edited by Brass - 22 Dec 16 at 10:33pm

Originally posted by piglet I had assumed in my ignorance that 1boat=1entry

The default position, AIUI, is indeed one boat, one entry, **no matter who is sailing the boat**. Which would give the prospect of, I dunno, lets say Team KitKat class,turning up with three boats with different sized rigs and 4 crews and helms of varying weights, and rotating the ideal sized crew/helm into each boat for the expected conditions in that race... But this is normally changed in NOR/SIs for small boat racing.

Edited by JimC - 22 Dec 16 at 8:27pm

We've had this discussion recently IIRC. Either way my new club said they would treat it as two separate entries of I used the Blaze and Fire rigs during the same series. Not quite the same thing but I did some class racing crewing in a pals Merlin a few years ago, he let me helm one race as at his club the points all accrue to the boat not the helm.

I had assumed in my ignorance that 1boat=1entry was the status quo everywhere.
Is this underpinned in the RRS? (& where?)

I do know of one club that voted to trial Laser down-rigging.
Not sure how successful it's been.