Centerboard racing rule
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there isn't any!
you may raise or lower your board anytime you feel it's to your advantage. most everywhere the handicap for boats with centerboards have a higher handicap because as a general rule boarded boats have more ballast and are less efficient than same model boats with fin keels. my O'Day 30 with board has 600# more ballast then same boat with fin keel,but still has the same sail area.
you may raise or lower your board anytime you feel it's to your advantage. most everywhere the handicap for boats with centerboards have a higher handicap because as a general rule boarded boats have more ballast and are less efficient than same model boats with fin keels. my O'Day 30 with board has 600# more ballast then same boat with fin keel,but still has the same sail area.
Yup
It is a local thing. I just read it on a local NOR.
7. Drop Keels:
All yachts with ballasted appendages where 10 percent or more of the total ballast can be removed vertically must be sailed at all times with the appendage fully down.
It is a local thing. I just read it on a local NOR.
7. Drop Keels:
All yachts with ballasted appendages where 10 percent or more of the total ballast can be removed vertically must be sailed at all times with the appendage fully down.
I used to race against...
a centerboard Ericson that had a liftable rudder he would raise on the downwind legs. We couldn't find anything in the Chesapeake Bay PHRF rules to protest him on.
We raced against another guy who always brought aboard his boat two big coolers of beer. At the end of the race they would come off the boat empty. We tried to protest him on the "moveable ballast" rule, but he simply stated that they didn't use it as ballast but merely moved it from one container to another (themselves) during a race!
a centerboard Ericson that had a liftable rudder he would raise on the downwind legs. We couldn't find anything in the Chesapeake Bay PHRF rules to protest him on.
We raced against another guy who always brought aboard his boat two big coolers of beer. At the end of the race they would come off the boat empty. We tried to protest him on the "moveable ballast" rule, but he simply stated that they didn't use it as ballast but merely moved it from one container to another (themselves) during a race!
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