Pico handicaps

   The wife is doing inconveniently well in her Pico, much to the disgust of myself and the other failing wanabees. However, confusion reigns with the boat handicap.
RYA post a SH and DH number (1258 &1262 I think) but don't specify standard or race sail. Laser have their own no. for the race rig as a SH (1117?) but were unable to tell me where it came from.
Our sailing sec has now applied the Laser no. but I reckon it looks far too punitive and is not based on returns, how much difference can a 3 battens and a tiny bit of roach make?
Anyone been down this road?

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piglet Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Really should get out more Joined: 04 Jan 07 Online Status: Offline Posts: 514	Post Options Post Reply Quote piglet Report Post Quote Reply Topic: Pico handicaps Posted: 04 Jan 07 at 2:37pm
	The wife is doing inconveniently well in her Pico, much to the disgust of myself and the other failing wanabees. However, confusion reigns with the boat handicap. RYA post a SH and DH number (1258 &1262 I think) but don't specify standard or race sail. Laser have their own no. for the race rig as a SH (1117?) but were unable to tell me where it came from. Our sailing sec has now applied the Laser no. but I reckon it looks far too punitive and is not based on returns, how much difference can a 3 battens and a tiny bit of roach make? Anyone been down this road?

Webmuppet Send Private Message Find Member's Posts Visit Member's Homepage Really should get out more Joined: 11 Mar 06 Location: Suffolk Online Status: Offline Posts: 534	Post Options Post Reply Quote Webmuppet Report Post Quote Reply Posted: 04 Jan 07 at 6:41pm
	The RYA say 1259 for a Pico single handed with a sail area of 5.9m2 (which is even more confusing when Laser say that the standard main is 5.1m2 and the race sail is 6.44m2 !) Laser say: 1176 for a race sail with a crew but don't specify a PY for a Race sail without a crew The Laser PY seems a bit harsh to me, when I sailed our Topaz Race with its Mylar race sail we sailed under 1210 (which seemed OK) so I guess that a Pico is possibly slightly slower than the Topaz Race - there's certainly not much in it between the two of them and that might a good starting point for negotiations, Nigel
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