2019 RYA PYs

I think this depends where you sail.   On open sea or large lakes I think the laser yardstick is still tough to sail to against higher performance boats.   On more restricted waters or against slower boats I can understand why it might appear generous.   Clubs can adjust figures if they think the national numbers are wrong for their water.

I would qualify that, on open flat estuary or big lake style water it could be true, but on the sea with waves and surfing conditions the laser can more than hold it's own, our series was won by a Laser on 1078, at 1099 it's a complete weapon, seeing that carbon rig, I'm almost tempted to Bandit one for a season if it wasn't for the fact I've got something so much nicer to sail even though I'm going to get slaughtered by Lasers in 80% of conditions.

Edited by iGRF - 07 Mar 19 at 9:47am

Bloody new classes, eh? Too many already, newfangled materials, shouldn't be allowed. International 12 was good enough for my great grandfather...

Originally posted by Peaky Originally posted by jeffers I'd do a great lakes on them and give them a ridiculous PY until there was some kind of data. Why not just give them a fair PY?

No room for PYAG smoke filled room conspiracy theories, then.

Just don't give a PY at all for a few races. Then compare timings and positions in reverse. If you have good standard Laser results for the person sailing, set the new yardstick to reflect those results. No need to be easy or punitive, just methodical.