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The Portsmouth Yardstick (PY) or Portsmouth handicap scheme is a term used for a number of related systems of empirical handicapping used primarily in small sailboat racing. The handicap is applied to the time taken to sail any course, and the handicaps can be used with widely differing types of sailboats.
The Coronado 15 is a recreational planing sailboat, built predominantly of fiberglass.It has a fractional sloop rig with black anodized aluminum spars. The mast is flexible and supported by stainless steel standing rigging.
Name Number built Year of first construction Designer Builder Notes 420: 56,000: 1959: Christian Maury: Several [12] [13]470: 1963 Christian Maury Several [14] [15]505: 1954
The Tornado is among the fastest double handed catamarans, with an ISAF Small Catamaran Handicap Rating System rating of 0.934 and a D-PN of 59.0. [2] It is the fastest catamaran in the RYA Portsmouth Yardstick scheme, with a 2015 Portsmouth Number of 634.
The Trac 14 is an American catamaran sailing dinghy that was designed by Australians Richard McFarlane and Jay McFarlane as a one-design racer and first built in 1980. [1] [2] The design is a licensed version of the 1976 Windrush 14, which was originally known as the Surfcat and built by Windrush Catamarans of Australia. The Trac 14 is 25 lb ...
J Class yachts Velsheda, Topaz and Svea downwind legs. The J Class is one of several classes deriving from the Universal Rule for racing boats. The rule was established in 1903 and rates double-masted racers (classes A through H) and single-masted racers (classes I through S).
The same information provided by runs created can be expressed as a rate stat, rather than a raw number of runs contributed. This is usually expressed as runs created per some number of outs, e.g. R C 27 {\displaystyle {\frac {RC}{27}}} (27 being the number of outs per team in a standard 9- inning baseball game).
The trampoline on a small sailing catamaran. A sailboat trampoline is a very high strength material under high tension, woven together in strips to provide flat areas in between hull members on catamarans or trimarans. This results in a lightweight decking that allows water to pass through, as holes are intentionally left in the weave for this ...