Your post made me remember one regatta were I personally went to the Race Committee (RC) to ask them to take us off the slow boat course and put us on the fast boat course. Actually the RC had devided the boats over the slow and fast course on their handicap ratings. With our ratings being equal to the F18's we should have been placed on the fast course but the RC simply didn't believe that any 16 footer could be that fast. So I had to convince them that they'd better believe that the F16's were just that fast. They looked at me with some disbelieve, but luckily I knew some of the RC personally (they were old club members of mine) and they knew that I wouldn't just make things up.
So after soem discussion the RC placed us on the fast course and scored us with the official F16 Texel rating that is equal to rating of the F18 boats. Here the F16's raced a fleet of mostly F20's and F18's with some FX-ones and F16's.
And God smiled on the F16 class that day as, sure enough, an F16 crew won that class in this 2 day regatta ! I think the winning F16 crew took line honours in 4 out of 6 races that weekend. One race they DSQ-ed (strike-out) and 1 race they came 12th (if I remember correctly).
Nothing spells "Told you so !" as much as that.
I think that next time I won't have to ask the RC to put us on the big bouys course.
Wouter
Last edited by Wouter; 07/15/05 05:47 AM.