At the qualifier we were orginally scored at the 65 rating since they looked at the blade 16 rating. With this we were 1 and 2 in place. Then RC said sunday they saw the uni rating and were going to use that. Well I am not sure what was used in the end as I never saw final results and since there were not enough races it does not matter.
To me if we all agree that the 67 is just way off base (which it looks to be) then as a class lets all agree to use the 65 only, and no one report the uni setting. This will lead to no data for this config and then after a while be dropped from the portsmouth numbers. Trust me they will drop numbers off the chart, they did this to me about 3 years ago, dropped the over 200 lbs A cat rating and when i showed up with my old wooden A that weighed over 200 i had to race at the same rating as the new a cats and got killed on time correction. Well asked the portsmouth person why the number was gone and was told since no one seemed to be using it they got rid of it. Well that will probably happen to the uni if no one uses it.
The other thing is to just get so many people on these boats that at every event we have our own class. Then straight up no matter what the rating is.
The only fair answer I can see is to vote as a group in the US on how we are gonna do this and then stick to it everywhere. Otherwise it can get confusing on what is the proper way to go.
I do not want to do well in races cause of an unfair number but also this is the system we all agree to sail under and the number is set (meaning the 65) so as of now that is the number we should play by. We can petition the commetitte to reset it lower but until that is done we should sail with this number. I know it might be unfair and other groups will grumble but we did not set the number there because we wanted an unfair advantage. Kirt and the old dogs set it where the orginal f16s seemed to fall. Let us hope that the commettiee takes the advice of the class officers and combines the numbers and drops it some.
Well that is enough wasting time typing at work.
