Hi Jaques



One other way to handicap sailing races of different types of craft is to use individual handicaps for each in your sail club based on their own times .

It is the same concept used in many other sports like golf for example .

Av their first few times ,-apply to to a scale , as each wins they recieve added handicap , this allows new winners each week based on their individual improvement over the season .

What better way to encourage new and younger sailors to get involved and compete rather than ---{fat sailors } very difficult to understand this one ,--some designs of catamaran have so much sail area now along with huge spin area that they favor heavy teams ,-Current I-20 teams weigh 360 av -last years natl.champs were an approx, 400 lb team finishing 2nd this year .



The mindset to allow some an advantage while inadvertantly desciminating against others ,--in this example a weight rule which favors heavy teams while penalizing youth sailors ,younger teams ,-and female partisipation , among others ,-all of which may not have other physical attributes of the heavy teams are in fact discouraged over time by this type of weight rule advocated by P rating .



Plan to use this type of individual handicap system locally next season , -hope to have lots of younger sailors involved , have 4 of my own , so we already have our own class and fleet .



Sail safe -

have fun

Carl