http://www.sailblogs.com/member/sweet_okole Copyright 2009 SailBlogs.com Sat, 30 May 2009 06:58:55 -0500 720 Sat, 30 May 2009 06:58:55 -0500 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss en support@sailblogs.com support@sailblogs.com http://www.sailblogs.com/images/sb_rss_icon.gif http://www.sailblogs.com/ 88 31 Weblogs for Sailors and Sailing http://www.sailblogs.com/member/sweet_okole?xjMsgID=63920 [%youtube*WChVfVlzSzM%v] Discovery Channel Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:55:37 -0500 http://www.sailblogs.com/member/sweet_okole?xjMsgID=63920 http://www.sailblogs.com/member/sweet_okole?xjMsgID=63810 Aloha, (Continued...) bdk Wed, 30 Jul 2008 22:20:14 -0500 http://www.sailblogs.com/member/sweet_okole?xjMsgID=63810 http://www.sailblogs.com/member/sweet_okole?xjMsgID=61724 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: (Continued...) bdk Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:55:13 -0500 http://www.sailblogs.com/member/sweet_okole?xjMsgID=61724