Vintage champs 2015

[paul turner]

Talking to Kevan I hear that there was a suggestion that we swap the sailing formats?
In other words, the Derwent Handicap racing on the Sunday, open racing on the Saturday.
Any views on this? Px

[Chadders]

I think one thought was that the handicaps for the pursuit races could also take account of the timings from the three non handicap races as well to get a fairer figure.  
The other comments I heard were on the fact that under the "Derwent System" it is essential that all three races are the same length to be fair.  Best achieved with shorter laps perhaps or a rolling finish?  The perception on last year was that races 2 and 3 were shorter than race 1 benefitting the earlier starters, not sure if that is true or not.
 Happy either way personally so possibly not that helpful as a comment Paul.