Welcome Danny,
Danny Johnson wrote
Willow took much longer to restore than we planed
Isn't that always the way!
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If any body has any idea of my sail number or how to trace one please get in touch,also if we have a PY number for raceing.
There are no hull numbers so no way to link any boat to a particular sail number.
Portsmouth Yardstick numbers are also a bit hit and miss. I first heard from an owner, in 2006, who reported that he was racing with a PY of 1170. A while later I wrote to the club he was racing at, Tewkesbury Cruising & Sailing Club, to ask for confirmation of this figure. The response I had in January 2010 said:
I have had a look through our cruiser handicap information
for the last few years and the Sea Hawk has been given PY numbers as
follows:
2002 - 1600
2003 - 1600
2004 - No recorded Information
2005 - 1770
2006 - 1750
2007 - 1750
2008 - 1569
2009 - No Handicap Given - we did not have any seahawks racing in 2009
according to my results but we do have at least one sailing at the club.
Had one come to the start line I would have used the 2007 handicap of
1750.
That suggests that the original report was a mis-typing for 1770.
Incidentally, when writing to the club I said I had recently discovered the site at:
http://www.byronsoftware.org.uk/bycn/Then it reported a SeaHawk at 1131. Checking the site this evening, it says the PY number should be 1185. Different again!
In short, it looks as if you pick any number you want!