Scooby,
So how does the F18 get a rating when they have different C/Bs?
You say in theory they have to be measured and could be rated differently but you refer to the F18 rating.
If they are different how can they have a single rating?
How does that work and more importantly how is it different to the F16 situation.
It is unlikely all F16s will ever have the same C/Bs.
Does this mean Formula Classes just should not sail under the SCHRS system?
Regards,
Phill
Currently the F18's are racing under a blanket rating of 1.01.
There are some who think that this rating is incorrect (and some other boats too).
Thus, to provide a blanket F18 rating, the "fastest" F18 needs to be measured. The SCHRS group are trying to arrange the measurement of a current collection of "fast" F18's, to provide this. This will then give the theoritical "fastest" F18, and thus the blanket, fastest, rating.
HOWEVER, anyone
may have their boat measured (by an appropiate measurer) and an SCHRS handicap number issued (say a Capricorn with a larger kite) and this would give a different SCHRS rating.
OR someone with a boat with small plates may work out that their boat actually can rate slower if they have it measured (but it is still an F18 under the F18 rules), so F18 Handicap is X, but their boat actually measures to SCHRS Y; this would mean that they still race boat-for-boat in F18 events, but race on handicap at a different SCHRS number.
Consider my post above again, 2 F16's can rate at 1.01 and 1.05 and both are still F16's ! These 2 boats would be sailing boat-on-boat at F16 events, but on Handicap (if the skipper of the slower boat wanted to) on different ratings.
