First ... Proposal submitted... Draft report submitted... waiting for feedback from two readers.
All you're proposing is trading one system that has a weakness for the group of sailors that are sailing the boats for one that has a weakness accounting for the design nuances between boats
WHAT..
Ugh.... the sailors using Texel or SCHRS have not come forward with .... "weakness accounting for the design nuances between boats:
You are the only one asserting an equivalence between SCHRS (broken) and Portsmouth (broken) as a fact..
You assert that PN is potentially more accurate... (can't be) You haven't jumped up and said... SCHRS or TEXEL is too hard on XXX. They get the formula wrong. Finally, We don't see any of the sailors who are actually using texel or SCHRS jumping up and saying... Yeah... the system really is wrong for XXX class of boats.
Saying SCHRS ss flawed doesn't cut it. Stating a false equivalence is a good debate tactic... but that does not make it true.
The only critique so far is... ... yeah... texel can't rate big cats and beach cats fairly. But I don't care... The area qualifiers are open to cats 22 feet and under. The other critique was... well fat boys don't get fairly rated on Texel or SCHRS. Again.... irrelevant to this debate.
I have detailed all the systemic problems with portsmouth.
Stop equating the two systems as if they are equal. One is broken... the other one is not. Provide some testimonials that SCHRS or Texel is broken and then we can weigh the two systems... (I looked... I can't find any good critiques).
A better way to describe the current state of US beach cat handicapping is .. that it is now a PHRF like committee which takes the SCHRS rating for new boats and scales it for the USPN ranking.... and summarily corrects the ratings of other classes when they get out of whack after using bad data.
The data is just not there...... therefore the system is broken.
Fundamentally, this is a question of integrity... using a broken system is a joke.
Look you could take the point of view that we should just invent a Beach Cat PHRF to correct for US water density and light US breezes.
PHRF for beach cats could work... PHRF is very successful and it's cheap to administer ...It's integrity is based on the credentials of the PHRF rating committee which sits in each area. I race under it every Wed night.. I just don't pretend that my race results are averaged into a rating.
