OK, one start, portsmouth, 30-40 boats. If I show up with my P15, or a H16, do you have a sound suggestion for where am I going to get a clean start? I'll be buried from the git go. Guess I'll park at the committee boat and then tack off to the right. I'll be digging out of a 20 to 30 second hole at the beginning of every race, if I'm lucky.
This is a common problem in mixed fleets. The boardless boats get screwed every time at the start. You fight your way into position and an A-cat below runs you almost in irons and then an I20 drives over you leaving turbulent air for several minutes. Then, when they are gone you can try to sail in clean air, and occasionally pick off some of the wankers. The shorter the race, the more exagerated this effect becomes.
Where I live this is the way they do it and they seem to think it is fair and the handicaps will sort it out. The porstmouth numbers don't have a way to accomodate this inequity at the start.
