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The cost of using HalSail is £80.00 (pounds sterling) per year, The cost of developing the app and running our server has to be recouped somehow. The ones in red are progressive schemes where the handicap of each boat is modified after each race in a series, depending on its performance. The following handicap schemes are commonly used in HalSail. In other cases, for instance in CYCA, the handicap is given as the number of minutes allowed per hour sailed. In some cases the handicap is given as a reciprocal, so that the faster the boat the lower the number.įor instance in the RYA's Portsmouth Yardstick scheme and in its YTC scheme the handicap is given as 1000/TCC, so that a boat with a number of 1050 has a TCC of 0.952

In that case the faster the boat the higher the number. IRC and ORC) the handicap is displayed as a number given to 3 decimal places (e.g.

The only difference between them is the degree of precision in the numbers and way they are displayed.

Such schemes are often known as time-on-time handicapping. HalSail supports any handicap scheme that uses a Time Correction Coefficient (TCC) (sometimes called a Time Correction Factor) to convert elapsed times into corrected times.

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