The observant will have noticed that the RYA changed the handicaps of our boat in the recent 2018 revisions. The changes were from 931 to 927 for the Standard mode and from 894 to 904 for the Sprint 15 Sport. These numbers are too close in the view of the committee and will result in a significant advantage to the Sport mode.
The committee has agreed do the following to maintain fair racing:
Adopt the RYA PN of 927 for the Standard Sprint 15 (changed from 931)
And retain 894 for Sprint 15 Sport from last year and not adopt the new RYA PN of 904
We have much data which shows that the correct difference between these handicaps should be in the range of 3.5%-4.0% and the above action achieves this (3.69%). Additionally the RYA has higher race results (391) and confidence in the Standard Sprint 15 PN than they do for the Sprint 15 Sport PN(129 race results).
The Great Lakes Handicapping committee has also set the handicaps in line with our recommendation. This means that handicaps at Grafham, Rutland and for the Sailjuice Winter Series will be the same as at our Class events.