Good news, NMBR is influencing and having effect.

I running down the list of all larger rating systems and contacting their respresentatives and one system has expressed being influenced by the techniques developping in the NMBR project and is currently implementing various parts.

Another system has ran some of their own actual race data through the system and found it to perform quite well, if not to say very well.

Now, this thing is growing over my head in a serious way.

So I will plead for help of you guys, the same that have expressed how things should or could be better in the past. But may be even more of all the people I roughed up in the past, because some of these have access to boats and data that are very attractive to us. But I ask also the help of the sailors that normally let everything blow over.

This is our single, biggest and best chance at significantly improving handicapped racing for the next 10 to 15 years.

I'm not saying this lightly, this is really true. I know what I had to do over the last 4 years to get to this system and to get it going and believe me this sure ain't happening again soon.

So who is with me ?

Bill Roberts ; I want to rate your boats accurately above all else but I need really good measured data on that. Can you help me here.

W.F. Oliver and the javelin 2 guys (F18HT's sailors also welcome) ; same there, we want to rate you accurately above all else and found that you guys represent a very valuable optimizing key to us. Wanna help getting your own boats rated accurately on either side of the atlantic ?

Inter 17 sailor : Same for you; you guys also represent a very promising optimizing key for NMBR. I only need your race data and the willingness to take along a GPS for one afternoon and blast around somewhat.

Hobie 20 sailors : Mark Schneider found your ratings to be suspect while all others were really good. This can only be caused by errors in the input data. Any of you want to help us get the right specs for the US Hobie 20 (a boat that never made it to the EU except in a few cases where the boat was modified)

US I-20 sailors : we want to finally get a properly measured area for the US I-20. can you help us ? Think of the benefits you guys will get when sailing at the Caribian regatta's. I can't elaborate but I can likely make it worth while for you guys even on the very short term.


With your help and some GPS tracks and measurements I can boost accuracy of NMBR well beyond Texel, ISAF and ANY yardstick system ever deviced. I'm not playing big here, I REALLY mean it.


One more thing,

I'm willing to set the example and pull the car for ONE YEAR. After that you guys will be on your own and can wait for ohhh, a year of 15 for another fool to come along and do all that I have done on improving ratings. Goz, I sure ain't gonna do this again.

So we all better shape up and get this thing flying. We will all get a better open class racing scene in return.

To the sceptics, how will you feel when in a years time it will turn out how unique this time frame really was and it was all lost do to some sceptism ? Then you will have both been wrong and the reason why a better way didn't make it.

All the guys who have mailed me in the past weeks, thank you for your support and I fear I will mail you all back the coming week and ask for some of your time and effort to help this project.

The best to you all and lets show the world what we can do.


Wouter