SW Ratings

[SteveGorst]

I am going to be racing my Etap 26 in a local festival shortly and there is no Byron PY rating for the 26. However Etap have given me a SW rating used by the Dutch Etap club of 109 compared to the Etap 26i's SW rating of 105. The Etap 26i has a Byron PY rating of 1025. Has anyone got any idea of how the SW rating system works so I can calculate the correct PY rating for the Etap 26.

Thanks in advance.

 

[marko99]

If you're reasonably satisfied with the relativity of the SW ratings, why not go with 1064, i.e. 109/105*1025 ? (And you have a good answer if anyone asks where you came up with the handicap....)

 

[SteveGorst]

Yes in the absence of any other theory that is the one I was going to use. I guess it may work in much the same way as the PY system except multiplying by 100 instead of 1000.

 

[christof_enigma]

The SW system is a rating system used for races in the Netherlands for non-measured yachts. Corrected time= sailed time*100/SW-rating .
A long list of SW-ratings can be found at http://zeilersforum.nl/index.php/Forum/90-ervaringen-eigenschappen-a-specificaties/20499-sw-waarden-leeftijd-lijst-onbekend