WPSA Friday Night PHRF

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Objectives:

· Fair handicaps based on performance

· Simple race organization and management

· Accessible to novice racers

Race format:

· One race weekly on Friday evenings.

· Pursuit race starts

· No permanent race committee needed

· Self-scoring

Race Series Dates and Times

We will race in two series: early summer and late summer. The early summer series will run June 6 through July 18, and the late summer series will run from July 25 through August 29. We will not race on July 4 .

All races begin at 6:30 PM

Boat qualifications:

· Enclosed cabin with at least one berth

· Monohull

· 18 feet or longer in length

· CG approved lighting

· VHF radio (portable or fixed mount)

· Compass and GPS (GPS will be used as a strt time source: see “Starting”)

· An email address for the skipper

Handicapping

A boat's base handicap will be based initially on her current PHRF rating. If a boat does not have a PHRF rating , but does have a Portsmouth rating, the following relation will be used to convert the Portsmouth number to PHRF value.

Base Handicap

Since we are using pursuit style starts, all handicaps are given as offsets in minutes and seconds from some nominal start time 18:30:00 (6:30 PM).

Adjustments

Following the first race of the series, the base handicaps of the last and second to last place finishers will be adjusted as follows:

last + 10 Seconds If and only if the number of starters is greater than 3

last-1 + 5 Seconds if and only if the number of starters is greater than 4

Weekly Email Notifications

Each week, at least one day prior to a scheduled race, the scorer will compute the adjusted start times for each participant and send him or her to all participants via email. Results of the prior race and current standings shall also be included in the weekly notifications.