Rick,

This has been discussed recently for shorthanded sailing  on the
Chesapeake.  Bottom line is there is no way to race spin and non-spin
together fairly.  You can come up with a differential, bu it nothing more
than a SWAG

Joel
On Friday, March 20, 2015, Rick Brass via CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com>
wrote:

> OK. I know this has been discussed before. But I just spent almost two
> hours in the mail archives rereading a whole bunch of previous messages,
> trying to come up with a consensus opinion on how to adjust PHRF ratings to
> allow spin and JAM boats to compete in a single (small) fleet.
>
>
>
> What I firmly believe I have discovered is that, sort of like economists
> and politicians, if you laid all the opinions end to end they would never
> reach a conclusion.
>
>
>
> I know that a number of PHRF organizations give a boat both a Spin and a
> non-spin rating. And I understand that local some local organizations with
> small fleets running in a single event will adjust the ratings of boats in
> non-spin to promote more even competition. From what I can see, the credit
> for running non-spin seems to be in the range of 10-18 seconds, or 10-15%
> of the boat’s PHRF.
>
>
>
> What I’m trying to do is plan for a “C&C Cup” to be run as part of a local
> charity regatta called Pirates on the Pungo, in Belhaven, NC on the weekend
> of May 15-17. More on that later.
>
>
>
> The race on Saturday is a longish (10-12NM) pursuit race that starts and
> finishes in the harbor and has north, south, east, and west legs. I know of
> about 15 C&Cs within a day’s travel of Belhaven, so I’m guessing the fleet
> would include 8-10 boats, with some cruisers and 1 or 2 real racers. To
> promote camaraderie and competition, and also so I don’t have to pony up
> too much for the prizes (the winner will get a half hull of his own boat
> made by Andrew Burton), we would have a single fleet.
>
>
>
> So help me here:
>
>
>
> How does your local PHRF or sailing club adjust the ratings between Spin
> and JAM to allow both types of boats in a single fleet? And how equitable
> are the results based on your experience?
>
>
>
>
>
> Rick Brass
>
> *Imzadi  *C&C 38 mk 2
>
> *la Belle Aurore *C&C 25 mk1
>
> Washington, NC
>
>
>


-- 
Joel
301 541 8551
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