Rating and Handicap Racing

Rating lets you compare boats of different speed potential in the same race by applying a handicap coefficient from each boat's measurement certificate (TCC, GPH, PHRF, etc.) to its elapsed time. This produces a corrected time that determines the handicap results, separate from the raw finish order.

Setting Up Rating

There are three places rating comes into play:

1. Boat default rating — set on each boat's profile in the Fleet section (field Rating, e.g. 1.025). See Adding and Managing Boats. Leaving it empty means that boat won't receive any correction, even if the race has a handicap mode enabled.

2. Race handicap mode — chosen when configuring a tracking session: No handicap, Time on Time (ToT), or Time on Distance (ToD). This decides whether and how corrected time is calculated for that race.

3. Per-race override — on a boat's entry within a specific race, you can override its rating just for that race (e.g. a different certificate applies for one event). Leave it empty to fall back to the boat's default rating.

How Corrected Time Is Calculated

• Time on Time (ToT): corrected time = elapsed time × rating

• Time on Distance (ToD): corrected time = elapsed time − (rating × distance sailed)

The lower the corrected time, the better the result — this is what determines the handicap classification.

Where It Applies — and Where It Doesn't

The live leaderboard and map (what spectators see while the race is running) always show boats ordered by raw elapsed time, or by finish order in a Pursuit race. Rating never changes what's shown live.

Handicap correction is calculated afterwards, in Post-Race Analysis: the Time Table and CSV exports show the corrected time and the resulting handicap ranking whenever the race has a handicap mode enabled.

Combining Rating with Pursuit Races

Handicap rating is independent of the start procedure, so it can technically be combined with a Pursuit race. In practice it's most commonly used with the Default start procedure, where every boat starts from the same line and corrected time is what makes the comparison fair.