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Exactly, and you take a handicap system for these things seriously? Sailing like most other sports is rife with cheating, from Americas Cup to the B2B. The responsibility for enforcing the class rules lies with the skippers, they can protest if a boat does not conform to its Measuring...

Been in the Bay2Bay race more than ten times on my boat. Did it last year on someone else's so I think I understand it and mixed fleet racing well enough. That is the experience I am commenting with here. I do not take the calculated results seriously. The only thing to get excited about are...

"You could also argue that" after the race is over, sports boats can always have an excuse. The handicap system is broken. The one-designer's just have to suck it up and work out how to do better next time, or 'go to the room' with their grievances. But then after being a handicapper for...

Sports boats and one-offs are for people trying to find a loophole that will enable them to win. The rules will always be shafted as wrong by those who do not win. Real competitive sailing does not require the winner to be calculated, they are recorded as they cross the line.