Down under here I have noticed on a number of yacht club race nimination forms that the handicaps are listed for a whole bunch of yachts with the Hunter 260 handicap being 0.715. Can someone please explain this to me. Does it mean that 0.715 is added to the total elapsed time?
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Ian Lechmere
Handicap querie
Bob, You multiply your elapsed time by your rating (.715) to give you a corrected elapsed time. eg: 2.4 hours x .715 = 1.716 hours. A slower boat takes 3.4 hours x .5 (their rating) = 1.7 hours. In this case the slower boat wins. Hope this explains the situation as I understand it. Regards, Ian
Bob, You multiply your elapsed time by your rating (.715) to give you a corrected elapsed time. eg: 2.4 hours x .715 = 1.716 hours. A slower boat takes 3.4 hours x .5 (their rating) = 1.7 hours. In this case the slower boat wins. Hope this explains the situation as I understand it. Regards, Ian
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Bob
Oh thanks
So does that mean then that with this rating the Hunter 260 with .715 is concidered a faster boat than say one with a rating of .615??
So does that mean then that with this rating the Hunter 260 with .715 is concidered a faster boat than say one with a rating of .615??
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Mark
Must be???
The few times I have raced the 260 has been at week long regatas and the handicap was sorted out as the week went by. How ever that worked I don't know but everyone seemed pretty happy.
The few times I have raced the 260 has been at week long regatas and the handicap was sorted out as the week went by. How ever that worked I don't know but everyone seemed pretty happy.
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Sean Coerse
PHRF
If you are racing under a PHRF system. Slower boats will have larger numbers. The number reflects the number of seconds per mile you are giving to a scratch boat. Thus a scratch boat in a 2 mile course finishes with the actual time it took to complete the course. A boat with a handicap of 60 finishes with 2 minutes taken off it's actual time. PHRF numbers are set up based on a true winward leeward courst. If wind direction switches or a triangle type course is used ratings become very scewed. My current PHRF for the Chesapeake on My 98 240 with roller furling is 258.
If you are racing under a PHRF system. Slower boats will have larger numbers. The number reflects the number of seconds per mile you are giving to a scratch boat. Thus a scratch boat in a 2 mile course finishes with the actual time it took to complete the course. A boat with a handicap of 60 finishes with 2 minutes taken off it's actual time. PHRF numbers are set up based on a true winward leeward courst. If wind direction switches or a triangle type course is used ratings become very scewed. My current PHRF for the Chesapeake on My 98 240 with roller furling is 258.
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