The problem is with the handicap numbers. A triangle course has only 33%
beat, if equilateral. The more you spread out the offset mark, the less
percentage the beat; the more you pull it in, the higher percentage beat.For
PHRF to work, I believe they recommend at least a 40% beat. Preferred is a 50%
beat like a windward/leeward or a triangle with an extra beat.On a dead
downwind course one should sail their best angle for the wind speed, not go
dead downwind. That's true even for the white sail fleet. There was a great
article decades ago about the pole adjusted forward to improve the broad reach
for white sailed boats. But with my filing system, I'll never be able to
produce it if asked.RonWild CheriC&C 30-1STL
On Friday, September 10, 2021, 11:31:22 AM CDT, Della Barba, Joe via
CnC-List <cnc-list@cnc-list.com> wrote:
This is an ongoing issue with racing, everything is W/L dinghy racing no matter
if your boat is 10 feet long or 110 feet long. Back in the day when men were
men and sheep were scared we used government marks and you got what you got,
reaches, beats, runs, whatever.
When I used to RC C&C races I decided dead downwind on a hot day was misery for
the white sail fleet, so the spinnaker boats went on a W/L course and the
non-spin fleet used the same windward mark but had an offset somewhere, say
beam reach to the offset and then broad reach to finish. Less tactics but less
heatstroke too!
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