• Time limit in Handicap Racing
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  Martin Fraser Yesterday 20:47
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  Beau Vrolyk Yesterday 10:33
• Rule 18,2 (e) Reasonable Doubt
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  Paul Kimmens 26-Jan-12 14:17

• Pondering Rule 3 - Are Race Officers and Organizing Authorities Over-Reaching?
  The cynic in me is wondering if these originals posts containing clear and obvious errors - in this case ignoring the rights that RCs have under the RRS, or in fact denying they exist - are made to create activity on the site. Inexperienced officials looking for a lawyer to get them out of trouble for displaying AP/A and seasoned campaigners realising that the less experienced will be concerned for their future, jumping on line to reassure them that their house is safe from litigation. Or is it just a poorly-trained chat bot writing whatever it likes? A while back a class secretary was asked to produce a paper discussing opening up a world championship from national teams-only to anyone who owned a <class> boat. He used ChatGPT which stated with great confidence that the class should go to open events just like the Optimist and ILCA classes. (FYI Opti and ILCA worlds very much require participants to qualify for an invitation). Perhaps we need someone to moderate the moderators? 😊
  Nick Hutton Today 04:53
• Time limit in Handicap Racing
  My first answer is:

  

  
  However, most club racing likely uses some form of elapsed-time correction. One fair method is to apply time corrections to all boats after the first boat has finished. 
  
  Here is my attempt to explain it. In the case of the 30 minutes limit:

  • add 30 minutes to the elapsed time of the first boat to finish and convert its corrected time by multiplying by its TCF (Time Correction Factor)
  • for all boats divide the corrected time of the winner, which includes the 30 minute time limit, by by the individual boat's TCF.   This will give you the time limits for those boats.   

  
  You might find that boats with a very low (fast) ratings could be already beyond the time limit set by the winning boat.   
  
  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  
  Peter van Muyden Today 02:11
• Three CV's on a long starting line
  A regular feature of the CIE Optimist Event (International Summer Cup) in France. 400+ boats for a coastal race (yes, you heard correctly!)  SIs in French here https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1DGqkqE3sk9DocwkCFUjcUmOc4f_A4kFR 
  Ian Venner Yesterday 19:52
• Time Limit Expired (TLE)
  in my opinion, is not a suitable answer in such circumstance. However, TLE encourages boats to start and make every effort to complete, which is correct for small single fleets.
   https://www.sailing.org/tools/documents/2021AppendixLG28112020-[26802].pdf golf hit
  Blackwell Gerald Yesterday 08:41
• Rule 18,2 (e) Reasonable Doubt
  Thanks again Tim and all, I have it all well in perspective now - and application subtleties etc as Michael points out...
  John Quirk Sun 01:48

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