This problem predates the tenure of the new (F16 sailing) chairman. He inhereted it.

I've been trying to correct this rating for over 2 years now. Send mails to Olivier Boven (former chairman) and such but I never received a reply. Then with this discussion of F104 on the French forums and our errornous F16 SCHRS rating of 1.02 I gave correcting it another shot. And the new chairman is a dream to work with !

Basically what the problem comes down to it that I was able to arrange an F16 rating under SCHRS based on the class rules of 2003. Of course we modified the class rules somewhat in 2005, these class rule changes has never been taken up by the SCHRS committee and so they still list the old rating of 2003. The modifications to the F16 class rules were small indeed but under SCHRS they result in a 1.2% rating drop just the same. This is mostly due to the introduction of the higher aspect daggerboards, these are of course unregulated in the F16 class rules.

The good news is that the corrected F16 rating will be very close to that of the F18's again. Compare 1.005 for the F18's and (expected) 1.008 for the F16's ; about 10 secs per hour difference.

So under SCHRS we are practically back again to "first-in-wins"

The Texel Handicap has always been immediately adjusted to the changes. That is what I like so much about the Texel setup, among other things.



I wouldn't count on that !


Wouter