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Grumpycat
Far too distracted from work Joined: 29 Sep 20 Online Status: Offline Posts: 497 |
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Topic: Pointless PY Pondering Posted: 26 Nov 20 at 10:04pm |
In my time sailing . I have sailed class racing , py handicap, py pursuits, personal handicaps based on time sailed ( people cheat , when they win they win by seconds, when they are having a bad race they are last by minutes) and personal handicap based on race positions .
Personally py pursuits are my favourite by far , with personal handicap based on race positions coming in second . And yes , certain sailors at my club don’t like the second race type because when their handicap has go out a lot way it means cannot win . But on the other hand it makes them realise how 95% of people in a club race feel ever week, so I don’t feel sorry for them because they feel like this for a couple of races in a series.
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Sam.Spoons
Really should get out more Joined: 07 Mar 12 Location: Manchester UK Online Status: Offline Posts: 3398 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 26 Nov 20 at 10:13pm |
TBH I just enjoy racing and at one club I win quite often, at the other I'm lucky to get out of the bottom third but I enjoy both equally. I think the reason is that nobody at either club takes it too seriously (ok there are a couple at the 'fast' club who get pretty intense on the water but it doesn't carry over into the boat park).
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Rupert
Really should get out more Joined: 11 Aug 04 Location: Whitefriars sc Online Status: Offline Posts: 8956 |
Post Options Quote Reply Posted: 26 Nov 20 at 10:23pm |
In a sense, they don't. Most of the rules only had to deal with displacement craft, so didn't have the added complexity of planing. And a boat designed to win doesn't have to be nice to sail, or fast. It just has to be making the most of distorting the rule set to make it faster than the spreadsheet thinks it ought to be. But I'm obviously just blindly following the status quo and have never looked into any of this, so ignore me and carry on with your wonder handicap project. I'll look on with amazement. |
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