Steve,

All very good points and I will follow up on them. Please give me a little bit more time as I do really need to lay the ground first. I have a working system so before the weekend I will post it.

I didn't want to post it right away as then some people would look at it, try to found a race result that contradicts it and write if off completely on one (freak ?) result.

I'm killing you with verbiage because the proposed system HAS KNOWN OFFSETS, I'm not arguing that there aren't but just that their magnitude is smaller than in the alternatives and that at a certain level there is not much to gained by going more accurate and more complex.

I also needed to specify where the mods have been applied; to the know problem points

However I'm reaching the end of the ground work and will post a link to a working excel sheet soon. So you all can look.



With regard to US sailing :

There have been informal contact in the past even as far a 2 years ago. I've been at it for a while. I do not know wether one thing caused another. I do understand however that Yardsticks are losing ground as the fleet has become very diverse and getting accurate data to drive yardstick systems has been problematic. Some people are mabe recognizing that when a measurement based system gives acceptable results that then there is no point in putting alot of work in a yardstick system.


Point 3 what is required ?

I answer this in relation to the NMBR system : All of the texel measurement and the measuring of width. You will find that Texel publicizes all of their measurement data and that they have the biggest collection of cat data. This means that not much needs to be done to put the NMBR in effect.

No, we will not rely on manufacturer data. We'll dependent on the system of independent measurements as performed by Texel and or ISAF officials and that of class based verifying committees like the one in F18.



With regard to yachts, a measurement rating system can clean up here as yachts are so determined by a few simple factors. Example : no yacht significantly beats Froude's law. And this is really a harsh limit.

Steven, I will satisfy your requests soon. Pardon me for the extra day or so that it will take

Wouter