Complaints???

It's very hard to argue with a ruler.

SCHRS is the ISAF handicap system... the measurement formula is administered over in the EU. Currently Scooby Simon is chair of the committee. Less familiar with Texel.

I suggest we follow the ISAF and World Multihull council recommendation and use SCHRS.

Philosophically, my personal ax is that nonlinear performance of Hobie 14's to Nacra F20's is best handled by two ratings... one for the non trapeezing range... and the trapeezing range. The counter argument is that it's too complex and does not do a better job of handicaping boats then a linear approximation with a single number.

Your milage may vary.

Anyway... its not in SCHRS.... but IMO SCHRS is a better solution then what we currently use.

That's about it for easy controversies..... after that... you best have some engineering background to debate particular aspects of the rule. The EU guys seem to be happy with either Texel or SCHRS.


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