National Handicap for Cruisers

It depends whether you see your timing app as also doing series results. NHC handicaps are basically just a TMF, like most other larger boat handicap systems. The difference is that the handicap is different for each race. If you're using external programs for scoring the series you just need to be able to import boats and the current handicap from whatever the scoring system is.

Originally posted by JimC It depends whether you see your timing app as also doing series results. NHC handicaps are basically just a TMF, like most other larger boat handicap systems. The difference is that the handicap is different for each race. If you're using external programs for scoring the series you just need to be able to import boats and the current handicap from whatever the scoring system is.

I'd be interested to know the take-up of NHC.
As suggested by the RYA we implemented dual scoring of NHC and PY(Byron). Our starting point was the Byron handicaps we had been using and for our main cruiser series we rolled the results so that the last race of the season was used to determine the starting point for the next season as suggested by the RYA and Sailwave. The results were interesting and overall tended to pull the outliers in but the same boats typically won the series just not quite as comprehensively.
My impression is that in recent years our club have stopped the dual scoring and are only scoring on Byron.
People weren't overly happy with the constantly changing numbers and what amounted to a personal handicap. Interestingly it was the back end of the fleet who seemed more vocal, feeling uneasy when they won a race when they felt they're skill level was considerably lower than others on the race course.
There were also those sailing OD boats like Impalas who wanted to be racing each other on the same numbers but NHC doesn't allow for that (or at least didn't when I was doing the results).

There is an acceptance that even within a class people are sailing different configurations and therefore a class based PY is perhaps not accurate. Also many don't want the cost of IRC, so Byron represents an acceptable compromise where for a donation you get a number based on your boats measurements and it's then fixed unless of course you change something

Edited by craiggo - 12 Feb 20 at 12:37pm