Texcel of the two - SCHRS has anomolies and a two tier system that biases boats MEASURED before a certain date with an advantageous rating against those built before that date but not rated ,2007 I think is said date (basically schrs assumes all boats MEASURED after "2007" have their waterline equal to overall length !!!-
TEXCEL MEASURES ALL BOATS THE SAME WAY .
Both systems are inheritantly flawed in the assumption that all cat sailers weigh 75 kgs .
yes you guessed it I'm a 118kgs solo sailor , with a boat built built pre 2007 with a significantly shorter waterline , but not MEASURED pre 2007 , that gets humped on hcap regularily !!I'll dig my hole now and batten down for flak .
No worries about getting in a hole, just volunteer to rate boats.
SCHRS uses a Rated Length adjustment (
rating credit) for boats before 2007, when plumb bows became normal. Measuring for RL under Texel, similar issue, boats without plumb bows get a rating credit in the Rated Length. I take digital pics with a metric tape for Microsoft Visio scaling (no wetsuit in-water measurements)
Crew Weight:The SCHRS calculator uses a whole crew person, rounding up/down when I put in 1.2 crew (I think).
The Texel.XLS uses a similar assumption on standard crew weight. However, the Texel.XLS allows WCD (?) Weight Crew Declared in Kilograms.
The WCD variable will change the TCF and corrected finish order results.
What's Normal?One boat in the last two (2) years asked to use WCD. I said sure, suggesting show up the day of the race and you and your wife have to be in bathing suits to be measured on my scale. They declined as the "declared weight" difference was ~10 kg over the assumed/calculated WCD.
Same with weighing a boat: show up and get on the load cell.
