Tammi Wrote
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'd have two or three 6.0na, one of whom carried a chute and had a famous USSailing admin as a crew;
two to three 18sq, one of whom is a Cat I;
four to eight H16, three-five TheMightyHobie18 (not enough numbers to justify busting them out for their own trophy);
One or two P18 'classic' both of whom have oversized Smyth sails that we nicknamed 'P18mx';
One guy had a 5.8na with widened beam and 6.0na sailplan, and he even singlehanded this thing;
One N6.0 Express;
One or two Inter 18;
Two to three Inter 20/Nacra 20, one of whom has an aftermarket main;
Hobie 18 SX, one with chute, one without;
One, maybe two, Mystère 4.3 (with chute but high rating, ouch, yeah, I caught a buttload of [censored] for ya, JW)
etc, there's more, but y'all get the idea.


Tammi, You really don't have anymore of a problem then with portsmouth. Portsmouth requires you to find the correction factor... multiply the rating by the factor and use it. Each mod is a multiply by x factor.

If the sailor gets a larger then stock sail for his boat and doesn't bother with also getting it measured. Do what you do with Portsmouth... He gets the over size penalty to race which in this case will be 1 oe 2 % percent faster. (just to keep the math easy and be very fair to the racers who do have a legit measurement with texel or Isaf... this turns out to be very easy... subtract 1 from the rating.).

The Texel math for a spin is also easy... It's subtract 4 % from the rating
Nacra 6.0 = 99
Nacra 6.0 with chute = 95
Nacra 20 = 95

If they want to sail that boat at the regional alter qualifier... they will need to have their sail measured.

Your sailwave scoring program would have all of the combinations that your experience determines will show up and you just register the sailor and the boat accordingly.

A rating certificate will only help the sailor with a non stock boat.

When they get interested in racing... they will figure out the system and get their toy properly rated. Till then.. it won't matter to the fleet or to the sailor. Your life is no different as well.

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