Dave, Thanks for the correction.

The history of that line was Darline's request to get the Area's to use wind adjusted ratings versus the flat DPN rating we traditionally used. Back in the calculator day... hell would freeze over before you would change the rating for each race. Once Sailrace (DOS) and Sailwave (Windows) became available Darline wanted to be sure that the data were collected. The best PN data she has was collected from the championships. The assumptions for Portsmouth handicaping are most like met at the championships. Each race is entered into the database under the windspeed it was conducted at... eg 8 knots, along with the elapsed time of each class. The data are then pooled into the categories for windspeed ... eg B2-3 category.

Mark S and I considered a change but we had no inkling of problem boats.... hell!... we did not even have boats... sigh. I don't believe we are required to use PN... but it's not all that important. Me thinks this is a jurisdiction issue and an organizing authority issue ... I suspect that the MHC has nothing but and advisory role in this matter to the Championship committee. Whatever, the Roberts rules solution...

The question remains.... Should we change it?

Sounds like three votes for measurement!