Change the PY System?

Jeffers. Indeed and full marks to Peaky for that 'head above the parapet' moment! But seeing that you were the first person to respond to my post.... you get the chocolates for highlighting exactly some of the questions that OUGHT to be asked - and by the people who run the sport and not just the keyboard warriors on here. As I said in an earlier post, some of the discussion is becoming almost philosophical in it's content. What should the PY system do? Is it a measure of the boat or the boat and the crew sailing it (what if you had an 'inappropriate' helm in a boat - a Phantom sized helm in a......British Moth; is he allowed to struggle or does he get help from the PY?). This has to be right at the heart of the discussion! Do you have an 'interventionist' policy that says that  if it is breezy, then the PYs of boats like the Fireball and 420 take a hit, or do you leave the numbers as is and accept that every dog will have his day - one day, when the conditions suit!

I do not profess to have any answers but that is not the point! Is there an answer out there sounds better, but only if someone is asking the question in the first place. Given that here in the UK our sport has become beholden by the majority to some form of mixed fleet sailing, surely that then places a greater need for the development of better, more insightful systems. or maybe it doesn't and what we have now is the best that there is. It's just...... that notion sticks in my craw  as the easy get out answer of "it's good enough for them".

D/Ventnor, Isle of Wight