Chuck,

There is a draft proposal floating around for the US (I think) class association rules that specificalyy brings up this topic, that the 2 set-up race on equal footing. I am not sure of the status of this at this point.

We brought this up with the Harken series organizers during the event this year and were told that it was simply up to us to submit a request to be scored together and it would be done. It was not automatic at this point becuase of them using the Portsmouth tables and there are 2 values listed for the F16. In the end it ended up being a moot topic as we had the qualifying number of boats at only 3 of the min 4 races requred to make a class for the series scoring.

We should have a better go at it this season though, especially if we can get that band wagon traitor (Just kidding) Jennifer to get her boat to a few of them.

Matt