What Do You Want Your Handicap System to do?

“How come after 10 years of competent sailing I have still not won a single race? What is wrong with our handicap system??”

Heard that before???

If all keel boats were the same then each race would be won by the best skipper/crew. But there are many types of keel boats so in an endeavor to allow meaningful racing between different types of boats handicapping is used. Handicapping attempts to make all boats “even” OR does it?? OR can it? OR do we really want it to do that anyway???

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