Handicap
Unusually, for a class designed about a rule allowing wide variation in most design parameters, individual boats are handicapped.
- Handicaps will be determined by a handicap committee consisting of the Rater Captain, plus the fastest and slowest helms in the FRP and wooden fleets respectively, based on the results of the most recent Thames Championship. In the event that the Rater Captain is one of the latter four, the closest helm to the Rater Captain in their category shall also be co-opted to the committee.
- This committee will meet two or three times a year to decide the handicap of all boats.
- The overriding principle that the committee will work to is to encourage the older and slower boats to compete.
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