Bob
The current PN committee is committed to following the letter of the yardstick documents .... since they are crica 1960 or so.... This means.... that you will need to generate data for a class..
There is nothing wrong with this approach... it has full integrity... it is just useless for handicap multihull racing in 2015.

There won't be any adjustments because of sea changes like foiling.

Since the PN system accepts the Class as the Class chooses to define itself.. ... Foilers and floaters are A class. With a data driven process... it will take some time for the data turned in from flyers to adjust the ratings using the standard allowed changes year to year.

The SCHRS measurement rule is the best option for handicap racing with the onset of fleets of foilers.... (or at least as good as one is going to get)


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