Prizes, Series and Occasional Competitors

Originally posted by boatshed It is a lot more work but I would like to see all of the club class races being bundled into a mass club handicap series to get two sets of results from one race; the individual class results and mass  h/cap results.   It seems daft to have a class race when one or two boats enter.   In this situation, those one or two boats in a class race get a h/cap result as well.   I know that many strict class racers consider h/cap racing the work of the devil and for those  they can simply not look at the results.

Bad form to reply to your own post but...

I have now seen at Draycote that the Wed evening series for the class starts and the handicap fleet are all timed and three sets of results are provided because every boat is timed.

Class racing and the handicap fleet.
All boat handicap result.
All boat handicap result based on weekly adjusted personal handicaps.

The personal handicaps then go on to get used in the six annual Pursuit races.

This is brilliant as last Wed we had 47 boats in the mass handicap race and from some Optimists to skiffs.   A single Miracle entered (one of Draycote's official Classes) and picked up a 2nd out of 47 boats.    Without these mass handicap results being produced, that lonely Miracle would have sailed around the race course as Billy No Mates clocking up a "hollow victory" 1st in the class series.   In the event it picked up a very credible 2nd out of 47!

Hopefully, some of the other Class boats will see this as a massive opportunity to sail in a big fleet rather than quit Wednesday evening racing because of the ruinous practice of timing them and giving them a mass handicap result.

edit:  Apols to JimC for the thread drift.  



Edited by boatshed - 27 Apr 15 at 10:01am