Maxprop wrote:
Rating rules are calculations based upon measurements, and such rules can be
beaten. For example, my boat has a 7/8 fractional rig, which gives her an
even greater rating advantage. Luders relished beating the rules, and even
when he showed the ratings gurus where they had loopholes, they ignored him.
So he beat them at their own game regularly. The SS 34 is easily as quick
as a Catalina 34, which is probably why they do so well in handicap racing.
Her PHRF rating is a gift, compliments of Bill Luders.



So how do you figure that? PHRF is supposed to based on a design's
performance, not its measurements. If a boat consistently outperforms
its rating, the rating is changed. What you say would only hold true
if very few are raced, or if the average SS34 skipper was a turkey.