On Nov 9, 1:50*pm, Kevin Christner wrote:
This assumes there is no difficulty in crossing the gaps or getting on course. *Personally (having owned a Ka8) I would not want to be attempting to cross the seven sisters with the wind 25kts WNW and a 4k cloud base. *Killer ridge day, the low performers might not make it onto the course.

2C

Chuckle

I think your imagination is getting the better of you.

What John said, plus:

1. The CD has advisors. They have a responsibility to call and open
a task that meets the criteria "fair and safe".

2. There are about a thousand other things a CD would think of before
sending a low performance fleet across the 7 mtns on a 4K day, no
matter what the wind.

What happens when the task is up & down Shade, Jacks and Tussey? The
Ka-8 goes about 72 mph and gets scored for 104 mph. I go about 100
mph... and get scored for 90.

My experience is that handicap racing is a blast when the total spread
is about 6% or less. Roughly that's my ASW-20 down to about an LS-4,
or my ASW-20 up to an 18m ship. If the range gets any wider than
that, it gets much more haphazard.

-Evan Ludeman / T8