On this Forum there was a complaint.., "Due to some very poor race decisions, we were put on the short course. The first day we didn't even have time to throw the spinnaker because as soon as it went up we were at the c mark. It was very upsetting and I did voice some displacer to race management about the decision." and that complaint reached me at the skippers meeting. An F16 sailor complained that they should be on the same course as the Low Portsmouth boats, i.e., Marstrom 20s and CFR.
He failed to understand that we take all the Portsmouth boats and divide them from apples and oranges to apples and then oranges, by taking the total boats and dividing in half by the half.
While he may have thought his boat was fast, it was definitely in the higher numbers and because there are some other boats that are slower in that class, we had to run them around marks that were shorter, but the course was still just as long overall.., we gave them two extra legs.

And by the way, the length from the windward mark to the leeward mark was just under a mile. Man! If you can't launch your spinnaker in a mile, you need to stick to the JAM (jib and main).
All of these criticisms are not only unjust, but are voiced through ignorance of the situation. The situation:
We had nine open class boats. By dividing the group in the middle with the handicap numbers, we had 5 boats with DPNs below .615 and 5 with numbers over .669. The F16s fell into the upper group. Had I grouped them with the lower DPNs there would have only been two H17s in the upper class.

As for the course.., again it was SABCACACF and was plenty long.
Mark, if you are so damned smart, how about coming down and running the thing so I can sail.., instead of sitting here listening to a bunch of crapola from someone that can't tell it from Shinola. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

Rick