Actually Bob, that is a misconception. If "someone" , i.e. a single sailor, is to do this then the rating number will only convergence to a "personal handicap" for the sailor and not so much to the real handicap belonging to the design.

Basically, the ELAPSED TIME results are dependent on the design, on the skill level of the crew AND on the skill level of the crews on the other boats. These three influences can ONLY be seperated from one another when a significantly large pool of sailors are racing each design directly against eachother, thus creating the data. With one person this is simply not the case. Especially not when that person is not of the same skill level as the crews on the other boat types in the fleet. And of course how does one know when such a person is or is not of the same skill level ? Read the last sentence again and think about it some more.

This is why yardstick systems (and all statistical systems) fall down in such a glorious fashion when the racing scene collapses (small data pools). Think about the SC20 and its rating or even the FX-one rating.

Wouter