Hey listers;
We have two reasonably active PHRF fleets on the Neuse River in NC that are about 3 hours apart by boat. In an effort to get boats to move from one venue to another (increasing the fleet size in each open but club run regatta), we have been using a simple PHRF scoring scheme that has its problems so I thought I'd check the list to see if any of you have solved it differently and perhaps with less drama than we have. Each club run regatta has spin and non-spin classes with PHRF splits at about 100 and 200, sometimes with divisions within the classes. Clubs need 5 boats entered in total to qualify and then the top 5 boat's scores from each club, whether spin or non-spin, are averaged to determine the winning club. We really don't have enough boats racing to routinely fix the PHRF splits for a season as the CBYRA apparently does. We have used both the default US Sailing scoring system as well as the High Point Average at various times--we are familiar with them all. This has more or less worked unless the OA decides to extend the PHRF ratings to get enough boats in a division to have better competition. Since our inter-club racing committee doesn't run these regattas (the clubs do), our committee cannot require the clubs to use fixed PHRF splits or otherwise do anything except recommend the splits, fix the definition of cruising boats, etc. Our clubs do not really have an option to buy and race the same boats for a team score as some (GYA, etc.) do. We are all PHRF racers with cruisers or racer/cruisers with a few smaller but different boats (1 Viper, 1 J-80, 1 Rocket-22, 2 Etchells and sometimes several San Juan 21s) all racing PHRF. I doubt that there is an ideal solution but maybe the listers might be able to help me decide between "...the lesser of two "weevils..."' on how to come up with a team score recognizing our limitations. Our committee does not want to run the regattas, just score them (or team purposes) with minimum drama about the PHRF splits. TIA, Charlie Nelson Water Phantom C&C 36 XL/kcb [email protected]
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