Racing

[focacube]

Dear gents,
I am writing from Italy (so excuse me for my bad english); there are not so many DS in Italy, of course at least one... mine.
So I can not race with other DS, but there are some open regatta for dinghies (like laser, 470, 505 and so on); in order to have fairier racing between different classes and boat types there is a compensation system called Portsmouth Yardstick from RYA. Does the DS hava a Portsmouth Yardstick number? Or is there anything similar also in USA or you regatta just against DS

Thanks

Focacube

[swiftsail]

Yes it does and the basic number is 98.5 for the current year

Here is a link to the current table:
http://www.ussailing.org/portsmouth/tab ... es08cb.asp

The numbers don't seem to be the same between RYA's system and USSailing. I would pick a couple boats that are on both list to create a ratio that you can apply to the USSailing Portsmouth number to convert it to the RYA number to get a starting point.

[focacube]

Thank you; yes it seems that RYA and USSailing have different PN number. the first evident difference is the number of digit (3 for the RYA and 2 for the USSailing) and this is due to the multilpier factor (100 for USSailing and 1000 for RYA); other difference come out (if I have well understood) from the fact that these are race statistic result and probably these statistcs are different from Europe and USA. So it would be difficult to find out a method to convert USSailing to RYA factor. Anyhow it is a good start point; I wrote to RYA to know if they have any information about DS in Europe and I have to study better the rules
Thank you again

[GreenLake]

I know there are a few DS in Europe as I've heard from people trying to find out what type of boat it is. But that number must be really small.