[Public-List] Spring racing?

[Michael]

Many years ago I raced Checkmate in the Wed. night races, and Inka was 
my closest competitor-at least boat characteristic wise. She had, and 
has, a huge advantage in PHRF; I like to think that's because Albergs 
have raced in class for so long, the skippers and crew get an almost 
immediate response to 'go fast' experimenting, and that overall 
experience over the years has resulted in a rating that is not 
consistant with other PHRF boats.

That said, we always did well in the Miles river fleet, and, even though 
Checkmate is pretty well equipped race wise, I think Wooshkeetaan would 
do well. We raced about 50/50 spinnaker/non spinnaker.

MichaelGrosh
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