PHRF is set up as independent stations; US Sailing only reports averages, it
doesn't set them.If you're in a lower wind area, your local station should
adjust accordingly.On Carlyle, we adjust according to the SA/D ratio since our
courses are rather short. Some legs are only a couple miles long. A lighter
weight, fast tacking boat like a J22 has advantages over larger heavier boats
like a C&C 35 for e.g..SA/D also addresses the ability to accelerate out of a
tack. It's not just hull speed, but also how fast one can accelerate to hull
speed.RonWild CheriC&C 30-1STL
On Tuesday, June 26, 2018, 8:09:01 PM CDT, Chuck S via CnC-List
<cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
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.
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