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BTW...if you build yourself a Frankenboat, it's absolutely incumbent upon YOU to know your mods and report them to the RC. Live with what you're dealt - you didn't have to change the boat.


I echo Jerome: Kudos to WindyHill for asking the questions.

FWIW, w.h.... take a harder knock than you think you should, 'cause it will quieten the whining. Somewhat.



Yup.

There are other rating systems like Texel that are measurement based. Then cross over to DPN using boats w/ matching measured rating. Finally, if folks in the open fleet aren't happy with the rating you worked up- Talk to them! I would rather race w/ folks glad to see me and my boat then have a killer rating that makes winning easy. Leave that BS to the leadboat crowd...


Duh, I didn't think of that. That's a great idea. Can somebody run a Hobie 18 with an F18 sailplan through Texel...or wait...is there a point? I'm not intimately familiar with the texel rating system but the Hobie 18 is going to come out the same as the F18 isn't it?

Jake Kohl