I support a change for the Area Championships... (assuming your area actually wants a championship... sigh!) because a measurement system is instantly fair and absolutely transparent.

A measurement rating system is 100 percent inclusive.... no class of boat can be excluded. The measurement rules are published and an independent measurer certifies the boat is what it claims to be. US owners with rare or unique class boats can pay for the measurement and go race against the fleet fairly.

Measurement systems are fair. Europe has the most active cat racing scene and they use either TEXEL or SCHRS and by and large believe these two schemes are fair. They have high participation in handicap races.

USPN has real issues generating fair ratings for new classes of boats and the process for generating fair ratings has obvious systemic problems. Specifically, there are fundamental problems in this day and age in collecting valid data necessary for getting an fair portsmouth rating with classes of of one or two members and new classes.

I support Texel over SCHRS because I see a periodic review process for the Texel rating system. The Texel Committee has a huge stake in generating a fair system in order to keep the enormously popular Ronde Texel race going. If the ratings were not fair...the event would fail. I think this incentive to be right means a lot.