Thoughts on PHRF: There are a few PHRF rated boats that seem to defy their rating and sail much faster. My New Jersey fleet had a J28, a cruiser with a rating 171, similar to a J24, but with longer waterline and bigger sails. Our rating was 99 and we had better upwind speed, but In many light air races he stayed right with us. We had to beat him by more than 5 minutes to keep our place. That J28 should have had a rating adjustment, but never did.
Now I race on Chesapeake Bay and do distance races; we start at one YC and finish at another. The entire race can be 80 to 100% downwind, so spinnakers are a must, but I'm racing solo, so I suffer w wing and wing and take pictures. PHRF can be frustrating. I believe the ratings are fair if the races are triangular and if they occur in all the different wind speeds. Average a series of six races in six different wind speeds. In reality, the summer gives you six races in no wind to 8 knots, so boats rarely ever achieve hullspeed, and lightweight racers dominate the results. I don't pretend to know any answer to this rating problem. I'm just sharing that around here, races have too little wind to race or we are lucky to get under 8 knots, or it's blowing 30 w small craft warnings, half the entries are DNS and half of the starters are DNF because of breakage. > On June 25, 2018 at 10:48 AM Francois Rivard via CnC-List > <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote: > > Yep I hear you on that. > > There's a few Catalina 27's on my lake too with phrfs ranging from 198 > -213. The 198 phrf boat is said to be an ex national champion with the > hull's gelcoat ground-off to save weight.. > > He's good sailor (British chap), had fresh sails, was a tough nut to > crack, especially in light winds. He didn't outpoint us, but in corrected > time our 102 phrf meant that we had to finish a country mile ahead of 'em to > beat 'em. > > We did beat 'em and won the season but it was really close pretty much > every Wed nite, we had great time trading jabs and became friends.. > > Francois Rivard > 1990 34+ "Take Five" > > > _______________________________________________ > > Thanks everyone for supporting this list with your contributions. Each > and every one is greatly appreciated. If you want to support the list - use > PayPal to send contribution -- https://www.paypal.me/stumurray > >
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