Small Catamaran Handicap Rating System

Welcome

New ratings for the 2012 season have recently been approved by the SCHRS World Council. We are busy updating the web site and expect the new informaton to appear over the coming days.

The proposal presented to the SCHRS World Council can be viewed here...

The ISAF Small Catamaran Handicap Rating System, SCHRS, has evolved over a number of years, initially from a basic rating system used in the USA from the 1960's, which the French Federation de Voile modified to become what was known in Europe as the French Catamaran Rating System in the eighties. The French have always been one of driving forces in Racing Catamarans, and they included a method of rating foils in their system.

Around 1990 the then IYRU decided that as the World Authority, they should have their own system for Rating Small Catamarans. A Working Party was formed, and they examined various options. The main contenders at the time were the FFV System the Dutch Texel Rating System, which was another measurement based system, and which evolved in the early eighties as a result of a need to deal with the escalating number of entrants in the annual Round Texel Race.

Both systems produce rating numbers which are remarkably close in many cases, but at the time it was thought that the ability to rate foils was important and the system chosen for what is now the ISAF SCHRS evolved from the French Rating System.

The SCHRS enables new designs to be rated quickly, and allows International regattas to take place with a common handicapping system for many types of Catamaran.

Reference

• International Sailing Federation (external link)
• Fédération Française de Voile (external link)

World Council

Nick Dewhirst (President)

Chairman UKCRA

Pierre-Charles Barraud

Official French measurer

Olivier Bovyn

President Int. F18 Class Association

Mark Schneider

USA representative

Colin Whitehead

South Africa representative

Technical Committee

William Sunnucks (Chairman)

Deputy Chairman UKCRA

Dave Chivers

Official UK measurer

Andrew Gallagher

Irish representative

Olly Harris

Naval Architect

Simon Longstaff

past SCHRS Chairman

Jean-Claude Rouves

French representative

Jason Smithwick

ISAF Technical Director

Geoff Balfre

QA and Webmaster