ifoxwell
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We have just completed our first IRC regatta and I have to say I'm amazed by how close the times are when the rating is taken into account.
There were only eight boats in the fleet but they covered a host of different types, ages, styles etc and yet after 4 hours of racing all boats were generally within 10 min of each other. We lost two of the races by just fractions (one by 5 sec and the other by 13 sec !)
Coming from a dinghy background where handicaps always tend to favor one class or another with any given set of conditions I found this amazingly close, and lets not talk about NHC....
So I'm sold on the scheme or was this just lucky? what experience have others had.
Ian
There were only eight boats in the fleet but they covered a host of different types, ages, styles etc and yet after 4 hours of racing all boats were generally within 10 min of each other. We lost two of the races by just fractions (one by 5 sec and the other by 13 sec !)
Coming from a dinghy background where handicaps always tend to favor one class or another with any given set of conditions I found this amazingly close, and lets not talk about NHC....
So I'm sold on the scheme or was this just lucky? what experience have others had.
Ian