John Cairns wrote:
Yeah, I race on Shenanagin. 3rd is better than nothing, but just to show you
how some folks think, "Jazzy" didn't send anyone to collect their 2nd place
flag.

That's bad. Why bother to race? I always go to the awards even if I
didn't win anything. That seems more and more to be an anachronistic
attitude though.

..... The
Little Harbor has a gimme rating for long-distance races.

Maybe so, but it seems unlikely for them to do so well in light air...
unless the skipper is genuinely a good sailor?

... In our area PHRF
issues one rating, IIRC in other parts of the country you get a different
rating depending on the course and the boat. Something to think about, the
LH has a warterline length of over 40'!

Oh yeah, it's more work for the handicapping committee but it makes
sense. The Portsmouth system is supposed to have four numbers for each
boat representing wind strength & windward-leeward or triangle course.

... Last year we had a Tartan 4600 in
our division with the same rating as us and Jazzy, they won.

There's a smaller Tartan (4100?) at our marina, a nice boat. Reminiscent
of the newer C&Cs with slightly more traditional looks. They couple on
it are long distance cruisers but they take the boat out to sail once in
a while and it seems to move.


...I'm going to guess that the average wind
speed was just north of 10 kts.

Hmmm, you could ask for a bit more on a race like that!

.... One other thing, except for sail changes and
trimming, there wasn't much work to do, we didn't tack until the very end of
the race when we encountered the holes. In the last several hours we did
five sail changes!

heh heh I've been on "races" where the crew spent most of the time down
below drinking beer & playing cards.

Fresh Breezes- Doug King