Starting Times: Series 3- (Jan 23-Feb 3, 2023)
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Handicaps are established before the start of the series and remains unchanged during that series. They are refreshed at the end of each series.
They are created by taking the average of a boat's elapsed course time for the most recent eight races minus the elapsed course time of the slowest boat in the fleet (the "Scratch boat"). The course time is the time from when you were supposed to start and your actual finishing time.
For example, if a Boat A's average elapsed course time is 60 minutes and the slowest boat in the fleet averaged 75 minutes, then Boat A's handicap would be 15 minutes and it would start at 1:45.
At the end of each race you will email your finishing time and positing to the Scorer for posting.
New boats joining the fleet will be given an arbitrary handicap to get them started, and after two "handicap valid" races an official handicap will be given. A handicap valid race is one where at least four boats finished the race.