Mark,

I don't ever care to see a handicap system in this kind of serious racing. It would be like allowing the Ford Taurus a 2 second per minute handicap over Chevy in NASCAR and as far as I'm concerned, it would do the same here as it would to the Talledega 500 - cheapen the whole thing. You want serious hard core racing up the coast? Separate classes by production class, formula class, and/or bring your monster creation (within a few basic rules...which is still sort'of a formula) - first boat in each division wins his/her division. Portsmouth is fun and good for some semi-serious racing, but there are and always will be, glaring weaknesses within any given handicap system. I don't want to spend this much effort and $$$ to be beat by a 'rule beater' at this level. Go ahead and out-run me...but do it with your talent and skill.