Pondicaps...ffs.

Spot on second paragraph, Rupert.  Your first just illustrates the subjectivity and frustration that local PY adjustments often imply.

As usual - either him or the other good, Hartley Wayfarer sailor.  

Originally posted by GybeFunny Wouldnt your fixed measurement system have spat out a new number for you when you bought that new sail or you re-routed your mainsheet, increased purchase on the kicker, moved the racks more inboard, etc? Therefore it wouldnt have stayed like it was when you first turned up.

Well if the beam/righting moment were part of the data input required then yes it would give a different number, for the rack movement or sail, my racks are fixed now on the innermost position thanks to the storms blowing the boat off the trailer and bending some bit that probably shouldn't be bent.

But, that programme MM has put up there, that I need, trouble is I'm all mac, and it's a piece of godawful PC software by the look of it, I wonder if that's what they were using, I honestly don't normally bother to even look at results down there til the following week to see how bad/much I've got to improve.
I did actually enter temporary crap mode and got unsynched from the shifts so in my mind I didn't deserve to win, but then he made a fundamental error, taking the tack furthest away from the mark whilst I took the right one, then God sent me a beaut of a header, which gave me an instant 20 boat length cover, then instead of waiting me out he tacked first and let me stay behind and inside him so the next shift gave me another ten boat lengths and order was fully restored...Prior to that he'd gotten in front of me so the result should have been tighter and I would have expected to be beaten on handicap, so my guilt was doubled, I don't wake up screaming in the night about it, but I'm not comfortable, to the point here I am confessing my sins...

PS, just stop taking coastal returns altogether and leave us with the PN's as of 2007, it was fine then.

Edited by iGRF - 01 May 14 at 3:08pm