Taking AverageLap Mountain By Strategy

Originally posted by JimC The main thing is to have plenty of short laps: you really want the fast boats to be doing at least five. The second thing is for the RC to be vey careful about where they divide the fleet: this is difficult, but I can usually manage to avoid splitting the leaders in the bigger classes... I'm amazed it happened twice in a weekend unless they were setting long courses and very few laps.

Long course, too few laps, splitting leaders of a fleet, variable conditions...that was the recipe.

What you have to remember is that nothing is perfect. Whilst the fewer laps/ahead is an isue that's visible to everyone, if you don't average lap and get big changes the distortions in the results will be far worse and for more likely, but apply between classes not amongst them.