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I have just volunteered to be on the local club race committee and I
know nothing at all about sailboat racing. BTW, what is a "Perf"?

Performance History Rating Handicap

Used to match skippers and luck -o -the -wind instead of bank
accounts. A smart guy in a crappy old boat can beat a billionaire on
handicap.

It's a lot like a golf handicap.

It's rating is seconds per course mile to be deducted from total
time. It's based on every race ever held under the rules. There is
a book that says what boat gets what allowance. Check out the
PHRAssociation.

A well organised race has different classes all supposed to finish
at the same time, makes for a nailbiting finish, or not.

You will probably be set out in a rain barrel to record protest flags.

You must time every class start, every finish, adjust times, then
declare the winner. You must also score penalty turns, etc.

At a meeting, after the race, in a bar.

You poor SOB.

I was a professional umpire for one softball game. That was enough.

Terry K