Personal Handicaps

Originally posted by iGRF I'm not even going to bother this winter I don't think, give it a miss for a bit.

And do what?

Originally posted by The Moo have just checked the series results for this year and the first 6 places went to the top sailors in the Club. The best middle of the fleet sailor was 7th and the best of the least skilled sailors was 10th.

(later authorship of quote corrected. Not great editing quotes on my phone...)

Got to wonder why you bother if the results are much the same as with the standard handicap. Of course a big advantage of dual scoring is that the usual suspects still get their glassware and are less likely to whinge. We have a rule that scratch handicap sailors aren't eligible for the personal handicap prizes, although we are yet to have to invoke it.

Edited by JimC - 17 Nov 14 at 10:39am

Give her a well deserved treat and take the Icon out

..... with anyone else of course.  Would get you out of the way domestically for a few hours each week and we'd get to hear your Icon expoits on an occassional basis on monday mornings.  Could be a win-win all round there.  The handicap stuff is just a side show.

Mike L.   

Originally posted by JimC Originally posted by Blue One have just checked the series results for this year and the first 6 places went to the top sailors in the Club. The best middle of the fleet sailor was 7th and the best of the least skilled sailors was 10th. Got to wonder why you bother if the results are much the same as with the standard handicap. Of course a big advantage of dual scoring is that the usual suspects still get their glassware and are less likely to whinge. We have a rule that scratch handicap sailors aren't eligible for the personal handicap prizes, although we are yet to have to invoke it.

Think I explained in a reply to 'the moo' who's post this was. We altered the system at our club because the race officers could not cope with the large time differences ( which is understandable as some of them are over eighty!) and because some of the good sailors did not like the thought of sailing in the odd race when they had no chance of winning. So now the time changes week to week are smaller and the handicaps don't roll over to the next series. And this now means it's just a waste of time, but we will continue doing it because the good sailors like it because they still win and they can feel good about themselves because they think there doing something nice for the rest of the fleet. It's just crumbs from the rich man's table for the peasants.

Edited by Blue One - 17 Nov 14 at 10:17am

......plenty of drama in my pursuit races with or without personal handicaps, trying to stop the buggers getting past me!