PY changes for 2014

Spent most of my show lobbying the various manufacturers and they're agents, for my SBHRS system, driven by formulas set by the people who actually build the boat, and fixed. Only changed if there is a change to the physical specification of the boat and not open to tinkering by committee and computers every year.

That would at least minimise their risk, so if they are trying to sell me a craft for 5 to 10 grand at a given handicap, I'm not going to be wandering around the following year with a long face, knowing the class I bought into last year is now dead in the water, not because anything changed on it, just because a group input data from a sailing environment different to mine or even that which the designer and manufacturer may have intended the craft to be used on when gauging the handicap rating.

Nothing would stop clubs carrying on with the absurdities of the current system, but at least there would be a common sense guideline written in stone that purchaser of a given craft could point to and insist if necessary it be adopted.

Not one of them disagreed that it would make sense.

yes some have benefited and some have lost but it is all pretty irrelevant as asymmetric boats will loose to symmetric boats on a windward-leeward course regardless of which sails its handicap better. the pys system is designed around sausage triangle courses so any deviation from this means the handicap system is irrelevant unless these type of course is used, now obviously no course will be entirely even on port and starboard tacks but some are horrifically skewed particularly on club races where mark positions are fixed and therefore limiting

"What percentage of clubs always sail sausage triangles? "


hardly any, that's the problem

Originally posted by iGRF tell me, do you ever sail upwind to the point you have to tack?

Agreed- although some smaller kited asymmetric boats can blur that line- 200 being the best example imho