After racing cats for several years now I feel the Portsmouth yard stick is good for a "ROUGH" measure of how you competed against other design boats. And I believe that is what it was designed for. Its not a "perfect" rating system that makes a fair race down to the wire for every make & model boat. I think a fair race could really only be done 1 design. Because all the boats perform different under different conditions & Different Level's of sailors
set the #'s by there racing results. Most of the regatta's
I go to its 8-20 boats all different makes and models.
Maybe 1 day the the sport will make a come back and
there will be enough boats at a regatta's that there can be 1 design fleets racing one another. Until then its a #'s game thats really not a fair playing field. But its what we got!

Ok Now let me know how you feel. I am right are am
I off base.

Doug Ramsey
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