For those of you that think that doing this on corrected time will be some sort of interesting analysis on numbers - you couldn't be further from the truth.

There's a saying in my line of work about data quality as it relates to how clinical data is captured and then analyzed.

It says "Garbage in, Garbage out"

When you input garbage numbers into a perfectly crafted program, you're still going to get garbage output.

PN is setup to handicap boats racing on a course with equal numbers of upwind and downwind legs. On a distance race of this magnitude, if you plug in elapsed time numbers into the formula, its going to be garbage in - Because likely the wind will be blowing from the same direction the whole day, and it will be one or two points of sail.

So those of you voting for corrected time, would you like to participate in a handicap race on an A-cat versus a N20 where you could go either upwind, OR downwind but not both? You'd effectively be spending MONTHS of your life devoted to participating in a race where the wind direction would pick the winner.

Personally I've spent over $3000 on personal training, $5000 in boat repair and upgrades and god knows how many hours on the phone, in front of this computer, and what-have-you promoting our team and this race - only to have it come down to what direction the windo is going to blow.

No thanks.

Unless you have put in that kind of personal sacrifice you wouldn't understand.