Race 03

All the yachts must be getting organised - Race 3 had the biggest number of starters & finishers of the series so far. Sheer Force finished 11 minutes ahead of the "closing bell" last night, so the 3 Division 1 yachts Janet said were "just too late" must have been well behind us. These were Chloe III, Anthanta IV and DJ2 Bos Global. I have to say I never saw any of these during the race, except for Bos Global which started with us & fell behind from the outset. According to the handicapper, these yachts should finish 1.3mins behind us, 1.9mins behind us, and 2.8mins ahead of us, so something went wrong for all of them relative to Sheer Force.

Apart from the above three, of course, Sheer Force was the last Division 1 yacht across the line, but the only yacht ahead of us which should have been behind us by the handicapper's prediction was Sundowner V. Sundowner crossed the line just over a minute ahead of us, but we should have been just under a minute ahead of her.

The handicapper didn't have a good race in terms of predicting the finish order. Ft Obsession crossed the line 4 places ahead of her expected 6th, beating even Uplift. Salt Shaker & Chancellor both finished 4 places worse than expected. The corrected times for the finishers were spread out by 10:08 - this compares to the spread of elapsed times of 19:25, giving the handicapper a score of 48% which is typical but not very good.

On corrected times, we would have had to have been a minute faster to have gotten 8th place, and 8mins faster to have taken 1st prize.

The table below shows the Race03 results sorted by outright placings . . .

After Race03	Elapsed	Outright	Handicap	Diff fm	Mins	Rel to
	Time	Place	Predict	Fleet	behind	Sheer
				Average	winner	Force
PANTHER	0:52:30	1	1	0.0	0:00:00	0:19:25
FT OBSESSION	0:56:24	2	6	0.0	0:03:54	0:15:31
UPLIFT	0:56:59	3	2	0.0	0:04:29	0:14:56
OUTLAW	1:01:57	4	3	0.0	0:09:27	0:09:58
YANDOO	1:03:30	5	4	0.0	0:11:00	0:08:25
CADENZA	1:04:49	6	5	0.0	0:12:19	0:07:06
SCARLETT O'HARA	1:05:08	7	10	0.0	0:12:38	0:06:47
SPEARHEAD	1:05:52	8	9	0.0	0:13:22	0:06:03
SUMMERSALT	1:06:24	9	11	0.0	0:13:54	0:05:31
SYMBIOSIS	1:06:50	10	12	0.0	0:14:20	0:05:05
SALT SHAKER	1:07:01	11	7	0.0	0:14:31	0:04:54
CHANCELLOR	1:07:35	12	8	0.0	0:15:05	0:04:20
SUNDOWNER V	1:10:42	13	14	0.0	0:18:12	0:01:13
SHEER FORCE	1:11:55	14	13	0.0	0:19:25	0:00:00
	Corrected	Corrected
	Time	Position
PANTHER	1:02:53	2
FT OBSESSION	1:00:52	1
UPLIFT	1:05:23	3
OUTLAW	1:11:00	14
YANDOO	1:10:41	13
CADENZA	1:10:22	12
SCARLETT O'HARA	1:05:33	4
SPEARHEAD	1:07:07	8
SUMMERSALT	1:06:11	7
SYMBIOSIS	1:05:41	5
SALT SHAKER	1:09:06	10
CHANCELLOR	1:09:37	11
SUNDOWNER V	1:06:04	6
SHEER FORCE	1:08:06	9

It's not possible to compute a point score at this early stage - for one thing, there have been less races than there are drops allowed! Also, I don't know which yachts are entered into the point score. But it is possible to estimate a point score ignoring all drops and just assuming that the handicap list is the same as the block entries (this will not be correct, but I've done it anyway.) The pointscore after Race03 would look like:-

Yacht	Position	Race01	Race02	Race03	Total
UPLIFT	1	2	1	3	6
SPEARHEAD	2	9	5	8	22
SUMMERSALT	2	7	8	7	22
PANTHER	4	3	21	2	26
CADENZA	4	10	6	10	26
TOCCATA	6	4	2	21	27
SCARLETT O'HARA	7	5	21	4	30
SUNDOWNER V	7	21	3	6	30
SYMBIOSIS	9	6	21	5	32
CHLOE III	10	11	10	12	33
ANTHANTA VI	11	21	4	12	37
AMON RA	12	11	9	21	41
FT OBSESSION	13	21	21	1	43
DJ2 BOS GLOBAL	14	11	21	12	44
FARR LAPP	15	21	7	21	49
LOVE BYTE	16	8	21	21	50
SHEER FORCE	17	21	21	9	51
YANDOO	18	21	21	11	53
DISTRACTION	19	21	21	21	63
AKELA	19	21	21	21	63

Uplift are setting a cracking pace by being a placegetter in every race so far. Hopefully the handicapper will respond by doling out some rough justice - no sign of that so far.