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ECHO Review in Dublin

The 2010 Dublin Area ECHO Review makes regular revisions of ECHO handicaps during the season. This year the revision system will be overseen by a group of club handicap representatives which is being chaired by Ed Alcock, ISA Racing Manager.
 
The club handicap representatives are;

Dublin Bay Sailing Club

Brian Richardson, RIYC (Taiscealaí IRL851)

Bernard Neeson RSGYC (Nirvana IRL3104)

Howth Yacht Club

John Faller (Checkmate IRL4186)

Malahide Yacht Club

Brian Stewart (Mon Reve IRL2113)

The revisions are scheduled to take place around the following dates;

June 10th

July 8th

August 19th

September 9th

October 17th

Any boat with a query on her racing ECHO should initially contact their club handicap representative in order to have the rating checked. The following information will be required;

Boat, name, sail number, class, boat type, number of races, dates and results.

Points for sailors to remember in relation to ECHO handicaps;

ECHO is activity based, the more races sailed the more accurate your resulting handicap

Finish the race. This may not be obvious but if a boat does not finish she has nothing on which to calculate a new rating, so don’t give up!

Equally if a boat is scored DNC, DSQ or OCS there is nothing to rate her by. So, turn up, avoid the chance of a protest by doing two turns and go back if you think you are over.

Winning one race does not automatically load the rating by 7.5%. Inconsistent results are more likely to lead to a loading.

If you make a change to your regular crew or helm you are obliged to inform your handicap representative.

The ECHO Standard does not change if you change to or from a no spinnaker class. If you change to a different class to the boat will get the loading of a new boat until your performance can be assessed as results history builds up.

Our contact details are as follows:

Racing Manager
Ed Alcock 
Office: 01 2710101 Mobile: 086 8194390 
EMail: ed@sailing.ie

Racing Administrator
Dorleta Rodriguez
Office: 01 2710104
EMail: racing@sailing.ie