Two bladed solid propeller on an exposed shaft +6 sec/mile
Three bladed solid propeller on an exposed shaft +9
Three bladed solid propeller in an aperture +3
Two bladed feathering propeller in an aperture -3
Three bladed feathering propeller in an aperture 0
Outboard fixed in well with two bladed solid propeller +6
Inboard with exposed shaft in place of outboard +3 to +9
RECREATIONAL ADJUSTMENT
Limited inventory, jib roller furling, polyester and +6
mylar only in working sails, no exotic sail materials
such as kevlar, spectra, technora, etc…
A maximum of:
One nylon spinnaker
One jib with Lp > 110%
One jib with Lp =< 110%
CRUISING HANDICAP - No free flying sails (this includes no mizzen staysails of any kind)
Normal masthead rig +12 from racing handicap
Normal fractional rig +6 from racing handicap
15/16s rig (I is greater than P, but not masthead) +9 from racing handicap
Fractional rig with ISP greater than 1.01 times IM +9 from racing handicap
Lp 135% or less, but not if small jib standard +3 additional from cruising handicap
SPL > J but Whisker pole length = J +3 additional from racing
I can add to this list for the Freedom 45. PHRFNE has a base rating of 99 but Narragansett Bay uses a base of 123 which is much more reasonable.
In YRALIS, the Freedom 45 base is 126 (wing keel) and the 40/40 is 102. I think that still may be a bit punitive for the 40/40.
My F45 had the following adjustments:
Fixed 3 blade prop +12
Undersized asym +19
Non-spin adj. +15
This led to one of the anomalies of PHRF - a spinnaker rating slower than the non-spin rating.
154/150.
Next year for the Bermuda 1-2 it should rate 142/138 as I’m replacing the fixed blade prop with a flexofold.
I always thought the 99 base for the F45/F40/40 was overly punitive. As an aside, I got an ORR-ez rating as well (mostly for the polar table) and it aligns pretty closely with the PHRF-NB numbers.
Here in SF Bay where I am the only F40/40 they gave me a base rating of 91 and a penalty for a spin pole longer than J (which is stock for the F40/40). Which brought me to 81. Brutal. I plan on challenging it but haven’t done so yet. I think the base rating is tough. And the penalty on the spinnaker is really tough when you consider that it is a fractional rig and a cat sloop. The J is really small. My spinnaker is significantly smaller than the one on the Cal 40 I race on even though they have a pretty stubby mast!
In NY (Long Island Sound), my PHRF is 151 – and frankly given the regular times I see when racing I think it should be about 200
Freedoms (especially my Cat Catch) are not the speediest racers – BUT when we have 30-40 knots from the Beam I can keep up (mostly since the other boats cant hold it down in that breeze and the Freedom handles it fine without even needing a reef).
That said, we are more comfortable then most…
On another note, has anyone reading this done a Bermuda race with a Freedom ?
