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07/08/2008, including handicap times

The Pacific Cup race organizers cluster boats with roughly similar performance characteristics into divisions. In addition to clustering boats, they also assign a Pacific Cup Rating (PCR) handicap equal to some number of seconds per mile for each boat which factors in more subtle differences between the boats in any particular division. The PCR also allows for boats in different divisions to quasi-compete for overall standing. Realistically, with divisions starting over several days, luck will play a part in overall results. For example, Division C starts on Tuesday 7/15 and Division D on Wednesday 7/16. If one day is foggy and the other sunny, the wind conditions will likely be very different giving one of the divisions a big advantage. So getting back to what we have more control over (our competitors in Division C) here they are with handicaps relative to Sweet Okole and the key for identifying the boats pictured above:

Boats we owe time to (ie we need to finish in front of by more than the handicap allowance to "correct out" ahead in the final scoring):

"B" Bequia - SO spots them 1 hour, 43 m, 30 s
"E" Oceanaire - SO spots them 34 m, 30 s
"A" Ada Helen - SO spots them 34 m, 30 s

Boats we get time from (ie if we finish behind these boats by less time than the handicap allowance, we will correct out ahead of them:

"C" Tiki Blue - SO gets 1 hour, 9 m, 0 s
"F" Urban Renewal - SO gets 2 hours, 52 m, 30 s
--- Rabian (no pic) - SO gets 2 hours, 52 m, 30 s
"D" Bullet - SO gets 2 hours, 52 m, 30 s

Division C

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