For what it's worth:
I participate in local informal races with the Bluewater Bay Sailing Club here in the west end of the Choctowhatchee Bay in Florida. My 306 is nothing but a small coastal cruiser, heavily laden down with comforts to support overnight cruises, and occasional day-sailing with other couples. No extra sails or performance upgrades. I have been asked my PHRF on occasion when entering races (in the cruising class, no spinnaker), and have been at a loss to provide a rating. I find various ratings (usually 'provisional' and several years old) when I search the web, and check on larger sailing club's listings. Lots of ratings for 290s, 29.5s and older 30s, but little on the 306. Ratings vary form the just-under-200s, to the 210s to the 230s...but, as I sail, nothing that looks llike a definitive PHRF rating. (I have been claiming 'around 210' without being able to justify it. Not that it really matters, I seldom am anywhere near competitive.
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Anyway, our local sailing association, with which my BBSC is affiliated, is the Gulf Yachting Association in Pascagoula, MS. I applied to them for a PHRF rating, and just received a certificate, giving me a Base Rating of 207 with adjustments (headsail 6, roller furling in-mast 6, roller furling genoa 6, fixed prop 6 - all standard gear) yielding a Net Rating of 231.
This just FYI if you also have a Hunter 306.
[FONT="]This new ship here is fitted according to the reported increase of knowledge among mankind. Namely, she is cumbered end to end with bells and trumpets and clocks and wires. It has been told to me she can call voices out of the air or the waters to con the ship while her crew sleep. But sleep though lightly. It has not yet been told to me that the sea has ceased to be the sea.--Rudyard Kipling[/FONT]
I participate in local informal races with the Bluewater Bay Sailing Club here in the west end of the Choctowhatchee Bay in Florida. My 306 is nothing but a small coastal cruiser, heavily laden down with comforts to support overnight cruises, and occasional day-sailing with other couples. No extra sails or performance upgrades. I have been asked my PHRF on occasion when entering races (in the cruising class, no spinnaker), and have been at a loss to provide a rating. I find various ratings (usually 'provisional' and several years old) when I search the web, and check on larger sailing club's listings. Lots of ratings for 290s, 29.5s and older 30s, but little on the 306. Ratings vary form the just-under-200s, to the 210s to the 230s...but, as I sail, nothing that looks llike a definitive PHRF rating. (I have been claiming 'around 210' without being able to justify it. Not that it really matters, I seldom am anywhere near competitive.
)Anyway, our local sailing association, with which my BBSC is affiliated, is the Gulf Yachting Association in Pascagoula, MS. I applied to them for a PHRF rating, and just received a certificate, giving me a Base Rating of 207 with adjustments (headsail 6, roller furling in-mast 6, roller furling genoa 6, fixed prop 6 - all standard gear) yielding a Net Rating of 231.
This just FYI if you also have a Hunter 306.
[FONT="]This new ship here is fitted according to the reported increase of knowledge among mankind. Namely, she is cumbered end to end with bells and trumpets and clocks and wires. It has been told to me she can call voices out of the air or the waters to con the ship while her crew sleep. But sleep though lightly. It has not yet been told to me that the sea has ceased to be the sea.--Rudyard Kipling[/FONT]
