Great sailing yesterday at Carnac! Carolijn is very fast, it shows she's an olympic! In the last race we managed to get 2nd at the upwind mark (right behind a tornado) but then our spin halyard got stuck so we immediately lost 3 places :-( We finished this last lap as 5th over the line and on compensated time we got an 8th and that's our overall score for yesterday too. We are very pleased with the boat speed. Looking forward to tomorrow, with 4 BFT predicted it should be again a very cool sailing day!
"Brouwer and Wardley have jumped at the chance to reunite on the water for a shot at creating history in the three-day Eurocat regatta in France from friday. "No all-female crew has ever won the Eurocat regatta," said Brouwer ... we thought it would be fun to take on the boys at their own game for a change"
The final result for this year Carnac in the C1 fleet is as follows.
That means all 5 F16's have ended up in the top 10 (4 F16's in the top 5 !) of a competitive 54 boats racing fleet; with Brouwer/Wardley achieving what they set out to do.
I say "Mission Accomplished" for the all girl team Brouwer/Wardley !
Last edited by Wouter; 05/03/1003:37 AM.
Wouter Hijink Formula 16 NED 243 (one-off; homebuild) The Netherlands
Re: All girl team : mission accomplished !
[Re: Wouter]
#210099 05/03/1003:05 AM05/03/1003:05 AM
The other 2Bsailing team of Darren Bundock and Will Howden finished at 2nd place over in the 110 boat strong F18 fleet. Mischa Heemskerk and Bastiaan Tentij snatching 1st spot with only 1 point difference.
BTW; just as additional info to interested readers
SCHRS Viper Double 1.035 SCHRS Formula 16 1.008 (rating used by the Falcon F16) SCHRS Spitfire standard 1.044 SCHRS Spitfire Sport 1.038
The rating difference between the Viper F16 and say the Falcon F16 is 2.68 points or 96 second per full hour of bouy racing.
The new Spitfire Sport has a slightly larger mainsail (from 15,41 to 15.58 sq.mtr) and a larger spinnaker (From 17.60 to 19.20 sq. mtr.). By rating this difference (between the two Spitfire versions) results in only 0.58 points or 21 seconds per full hour of racing. The rating difference between the Viper F16 and Spitfire (both versions) are respectively 0.87 points = 31 sec/hour and 0.29 points = 10 sec/hour
The differences are rather small.
Wouter
Wouter Hijink Formula 16 NED 243 (one-off; homebuild) The Netherlands
Re: All girl team : mission accomplished !
[Re: Wouter]
#210108 05/03/1007:43 AM05/03/1007:43 AM
Would that have changed the standings if they would have used the F16 rating?
I think the Falcon F16 was the fastest rated boat in the whole fleet so the position of Gill and Kathleen can only improve if different handicap is used.
Other then that I think the 5 bullets in 7 races by Carolijn and Liz sort of suggests that they didn't depend to much on their handicap number. Chris and Georgina are always fast (high scores) no matter on what boat type they are so same reasoning there I guess.
We may find that things would turn out only slightly different under F16 ratings as most boats in the top 10 are Viper F16's and would all get the same mods, thus leaving their relative placings unaffected.
Personally, I don't see the 3rd place Spitfire with 24 points jump to second place (at 14 points); the gap seems to big for that.
Wouter
Last edited by Wouter; 05/03/1010:48 AM.
Wouter Hijink Formula 16 NED 243 (one-off; homebuild) The Netherlands
Re: All girl team : mission accomplished !
[Re: Wouter]
#210130 05/03/1002:26 PM05/03/1002:26 PM
Concerning the Vipers, they sailed the 104 rating, but as Wouter says the results wouldn't haven't been that different with the other rating. In three of the races we finished before some of the Vipers and were rated behind. Not different enough to change the result though.
Anyway I find it a pity for the class that there was only one F16 there officially, being us on the Falcon, but I guess none of the owners had a certificate to race as F16.
We we had a great time and I hope to see MORE F16 next year!
Concerning the Vipers, they sailed the 104 rating,
Gill
" Barely 120 kilo dripping wet, the catamaran lightweights excelled in a variety of conditions to claim the 16-foot division " ( B2 blurb )
And that is the problem for handicap systems, penalise the light boats but make no allowance for the very light weight crew, something SCHRS should be capable of dealing with relatively easily
Re: All girl team : mission accomplished !
[Re: waynemarlow]
#210161 05/04/1005:54 AM05/04/1005:54 AM
And that is the problem for handicap systems, penalise the light boats but make no allowance for the very light weight crew, something SCHRS should be capable of dealing with relatively easily
I personally think they were actually DISADVANTAGED at 120 kg on a F16.
As such there is no need to penalized them further.
Wouter
Wouter Hijink Formula 16 NED 243 (one-off; homebuild) The Netherlands
