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ITC conference call discussing the merit of giving race committees more pre-constructed courses to encourage the adoption of Polar Curve Scoring. When I hung up she asked ‘what was all that about?’ I delivered my spiel along the lines explained above. Disappointingly this cut no ice with her. She held firm to her view that the owner had made his choice


about what boat to buy. If it was slow in light airs that was his look- out, and anyway he should do better when it was windy. He shouldn’t look to the rating system to rescue him – if you bought a Class40 to race in Long Island Sound, more fool you. This is a widely held view. Every dog having its day is an inherent


part of handicap racing; massage your TCF to within an inch of its life to gain a few clicks, then let the weather gods sprinkle tens of ‘bonus’ clicks across the fleet to help some and hinder others.


Almost all handicap races are scored using a single, predeter-


mined TCF. For many fleets the predetermination is done weeks ahead of the regatta. But for a growing number of regattas with diverse fleets the TCF is fixed on the day of the race using the antic- ipated wind speed and direction and anticipated course layout. For fleets of similar boat types with a small size range the dis-


cussion about how and when to post the TCF scratch sheet is moot. But for more diverse fleets where a wide mix of boat types want to race together the use of Polar Curve Scoring can deliver a more rational handicap scheme. And no one need leave the dock feeling that the weather has


already robbed them of their chance to do well... Andy Claughton, Chair, International Technical Committee


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