SHF GoForSpeed! 210112

Veckans läsarfråga: Hej! Vi är ett gäng som idag seglar en 80-talsbåt och trivs bra med det. Men vi har börjat snegla uppåt. Vi vill kunna vara med i Marstrand Big Boat, Gotland Runt och liknande race, och då räcker inte riktigt den båt vi har. Eftersom MBBR numera seglas under ORC behöver båten fungera […]

This summer’s scoring debate has been the most engaged discussion on this blog in years. After Færder, the DH Worlds, Sandhamn Open, and the Bermuda report, I wrote down six questions and sent them to ORC. To their credit, they answered. Thomas Nilsson and Andy Claughton, chairman of ORC’s International Technical Committee, prepared the response […]

If you’ve been involved in offshore racing for a while, you’ve probably come across the new way of calculating results: Weather Routing Scoring (WRS). The idea: combine a boat’s theoretical performance (the VPP polars on its certificate) with a weather model for the actual race, then measure how close each boat got to its possible performance […]