PORTSMOUTH YARDSTICK

This is the system we use to score Thursday Night Races. It is performance based, like PHRF; that is it uses race results to figure handicaps. It is maintained by USSA.
It assumes the boats meet their class rules, so there is no need to measure them.
We use the variable handicaps. That means each boat has four different handicaps, one for each of four wind strengths, measured in Beaufort Numbers.

Below are handicaps for some of the boats in our fleet:

Variable		Wind Force Beaufort
Handicaps:     	0 - 1	2 - 3	4	5+ 
Hobie 18	77.6	73.9	70.7	66.7
505	        82.4	80.9	79.6	78.8
Flying Dutchman	82.5	81.5	78.0	76.1
Thistle	        83.0	83.0	83.0	83.0
Hobie 16	83.7	79.5	75.3	71.4
Star	        84.2	83.7	82.3	(81.5)
Soling	        84.7	83.1	81.9	80.4
International14	87.0	86.3	84.4	84.4
Highlander	87.8	86.6	82.5	80.6
Bucaneer 18	89.2	87.4	86.4	85.9
470 	        91.3	88.3	84.5	82.7
Santana 20	91.5	91.4	91.6	90.6
Coronado 15	92.6	92.1	91.3	91.0
Laser	        93.4	91.8	91.0	88.7
Enterprise 	93.7	93.3	92.5	92.5
Laser 2	        96.4	94.5	93.6	90.1
Mutineer	97.9	95.9	95.8	(95.8)
CL 16	        97.7	97.3	94.9	94.7
Force 5	        98.1	96.7	95.4	94.1
Lido 14         99.7    99.7    98.8   (98.9)
Tanzer 16	99.9	98.8	96.4	[96.0]
Newport 16	(103.5)	(103.5)	(103.5)	(103.5)
Alpha	        (105.5)	111.6	110.3	[110.3]
Ghost 	        105.9	105.7	103.0	[103.0]
Butterfly	110.1	109.5	107.0	106.8
Hobie One-14    112.8   109.8   [110.3]  [110.3]
El Toro	       [130.1]	129.9	(121.0)	[121.0]