Mike...
This is not an MHC call.... FACT... Each Club makes that call of what handicap system to use based on what their members want to use.

BUT the MHC and US Sailing can take a leadership position here.

How did it work BACK IN THE DAY!.... it was contentious to switch from NAMSA to USA Portsmouth.... Those in the know had an opinion.... The sailors ultimately decided that the US SAILINGS stamp of approval had some meaning... there was no value in running a NAMSA table which was proprietary to a guy named Herb Malm...and was used exclusively for Catamarans. The USA switched in about two seasons following Darline Hobocks AND US SAILINGS leadership.

The world is different. Quality and qualified data simply do not exist for portsmouth calculations. Now the only real choice is SCHRS or TEXEL.... 9tapping into the stronger EU cat scene) So, since SCHRS is sanctioned by ISAF and thus US Sailing... SCHRS is the obvious alternative. The MHC and US Sailing could move the community by putting their good housekeeping seal on US SCHRS.

The MHC could make life easy for US clubs and get certified measurements for the one design classes that did not make it to the EU.... (Isotope, Shark, CFR 20 and some others)... This would create a SCHRS table with full integrity. The good house keeping seal of approval by US Sailing will matter to clubs running handicap beach cat races... US Portmsouth is still valid for clubs racing mono's and cats in the same start. Nothing would change for the US Sailing Portsmouth system. Race data is race data... independent of what rating system is used to compute the score-sheet. ...