Because some people, despite all the evidence to the contrary, only look at the length of a boat and think that they know what the speed performance is. The fact that the US PN handicap is absolutely to slow doesn't help either.

Didn't we encounter more often in the past that event lay to cut of for the fast cat class at 65.0 as to keep the 65.2 F16's in the slow boat class on the kiddies course ?

Additionally I still don't understand we a regatta still creates so many different cat classes. Basically there should be only two.

-1- Spinnaker boats (not matter how small)
-2- Non spinnaker boats.

If there are alot of singlehanders then maybe a 3rd seperate class for them can be chosen.

The stray cats class is just rediculous, especially since a seperate 20 foot cat class was also created with boats that shared the same handicaps as the cats in the stray class. Why was the singel G-cat 20 in teh Ports 20 class when rated at 65.0 when the 4 Prindle 19's (65.1) were in the stray class ?

I've ceased to try to make sense of things like this.

Maybe the best way to adress this is too petition again with the US-PN comitee to lower our handicap rating to something like 63.5 ?

Wouter