I am requesting a rating review from PHRF-NB (Narragansett Bay). My current rating with adjustments is 199…I have a Freedom 30SD. I am the only Freedom 30 racing in Narragansett Bay…the only other racing Freedom is Dave Pedrick’s 35. There are 4 Catalinas with non-spin ratings of 231, 221, 234, 215 …an O’day 30 rated at 214 and a Nonsuch 30 rated at 207. The head of the rating committee stated that they took away my spinnaker credit in that my boat was never designed to carry a spinnaker, even after I demonstrated my boat has a bow designed to carry a gun mount spinnaker, and I also forwarded pictures of the Freedom brochure which showed these boats flying a spinnaker. The response was akin to what my parents often said to me “because I said so”… From what I can ascertain the base rating was last updated in 1995… i say more Freedoms would be racing if the rating was competitive … as part of my plea I’d like to know how many Mull Freedom 30’/32s were produced … hoping someone could supply that number.
Cheers
Gary Venable
Freedom 30SD #83
Serendipity, Portsmouth RI