PHRF rating for 469?

[moonshadow]

Hi again. Recently I was talked into sailing a “cruiser race”. For me this meant no code zero or spin allowed, carried my dinghy on Davits, fuel jugs on deck etc. I really had a fun time even though it has been 25 years since I swore off racing. So, my question is about PHRF ratings if any of you have done this. It seems a low rating number means you should be a fast boat and I was assigned for this race a rating of 72. Im pretty sure this was for a performance model of the 469. I’m not really sure where this came from except “we looked it up online”. All of this is fine since it was a fun race, but I would like to know in case I do it again what number should be used. I found a few tables of phrf ratings online that seemed to vary by quite a bit. I did see one that was specifically for a “cruising/roller furling main” SO469. That group assigned a rating of 108.
Basically, in case I do this again I am asking if anyone here has done something similar and can share the rating they use.
Thanks, Paul

[jmuhlendorf]

Moonshadow,

I have a 439 at Baypoint with you.  go to PHRF of the Chesapeake.  www.phrfchesbay.org/
I race every Wednesday night with Broad Bay Sailing.  You should join its a great group. If you ever want to come out just let me know.  Jonathan.

www.broadbaysailing.org/

My PHRF rating is 99, so your rating would be lower.  Once you register they pull the specs for you boat and then there are adjustments.  For instance, my rating is adjusted up (slower) for my bow thruster but down because I have a folding prop.

Race times are attempted to be equalized based on the rating.  For instance a boat with a 104 rating would get 5 seconds per mile credit against me.  The math is a little more complicated but that is the basics.