Saturday's racing was a tale of two halves: hardly enough breeze to fill an Osborne spinnaker in the morning, and blowing old boots in the afternoon. The club was buzzing throughout the weekend and we even managed to persuade confirmed skiffettes Fiona and Bev to step aboard a Flying Fifteen.
Lots of kids in Picos and a real buzz about the place. Good barbecues and booze too.
I'll let others contribute their own recollections, as my memory is failing and only registers when Ffly does well. Alas, her winning days are numbered. Not before time, I hear you mutter. Time to polish my bottom and break out the new sails...
Now that the Osbornes are finally up to speed (took them
long enough) and in order to avoid family feuds, here is the handicap system
that ensures fair results between the Classic fleet (three club boats plus Alastair’s,
Nabbie’s, John’s and Paul’s); Silver fleet (Ffly) and Sandy’s Open, or Modern Ovington 9.
Forgive my maths, so do check the figures those of a mathematical bent.
HANDICAP SYSTEM
BIFFA define the Classic Fleet as being for boats below sail
number 2700, plus boats built by Wyche and Coppock and Copland/McIntosh with
sail numbers higher than this, but using the old shape hull. Silver Fleet boats
run from sail number 2700 to 3200 with the exception of those eligible for
Classic racing.
Classic boats sail under a Portsmouth yardstick (PY) number
of 1049: Silver Fleet boats sail off 1037, while Modern boats use the RYA 2011
PY of 1024.
Scoring a race
In order to score a handicap race corrected times need to be
calculated from a boat’s elapsed time (time taken to sail the course). This is
achieved by using the formula below.
Calculation of corrected times for race results
Corrected Time (C) = Elapsed Time (ET) x 1000 divided by PY
(All times in seconds, any decimals are rounded to the
nearest whole figure with a decimal of 0.5 and above rounded up and less than
0.5 down)
Example
That means, in a race that takes a Modern boat 39 minutes; Silver
40 minutes and Classic 41 minutes elapsed time, the corrected times would be:
Boat PY Elapsed
(ET) Corrected time (CT)
Modern 1024 2340 2285 (1)
Silver 1037 2400 2314
(2)
Classic 1049 2460 2345 (3)
Modern wins over Silver by 29 seconds and over Classic by 60
seconds (CT)
Example
If all boats finished together the results of a 40 minute
race would be:
Boat PY Elapsed Corrected
Modern 1024 2400 2343
(3)
Silver 1037 2400 2314 (2)
Classic 1049 2400 2288
(1)
Classic wins over Silver by 26 seconds and over Modern by 55
seconds (CT)
Example
In a race lasting around 60 minutes Modern has to
beat Classic by around 90 secs (ET) to
save her time and around 47 seconds to beat Silver.
Boat PY ET CT
Modern 1024 3686 3600
Silver 1037 3733 3600
Classic 1049 3776 3600
Example
In a race where Modern’s ET is 40 minutes (2400 secs) and
Classic is 18 seconds astern (2418) and Silver is 12 seconds (2430) behind
Classic the result (rounded up and down to the nearest second) would be:
Boat PY ET CT
Modern 1024 2400 2344
(3)
Classic 1049 2418 2304
(1)
Silver 1037 2430 2342
(2)