Hi SUG Member,
A couple of weeks ago on a Chat session I was asked, by a South African user, if Sailwave could score using World Sailing Empirical Handicap Scheme for Yachts. They could not see this rating system listed as an option on the Ratings tab of Scoring System. The reply was yes it should be possible using an external spreadsheet.
From World Sailing website
The scheme is intended to permit yachts, generally displacement boats with keels, of varying designs to race against each other and after racing determine, by calculation, the race results by excluding the performance differences of the boats themselves. The scheme is an empirical handicap scheme, that is a scheme where after racing the relative performance of each boat – their handicap, is determined from the times it took each boat to complete the race.
World Sailing provides this scheme to any race organiser who wishes to use it. It is intended to operate in isolation at local/race organiser level requiring no input to or from World Sailing or elsewhere. World Sailing does however offer users a basic method of handicap allocation to a boat for use in its first race.
There are the are 3 links on this page - World Sailing - Ratings and Handicap Systems - a description, a sample race result spreadsheet and a spreadsheet for calculating an initial TCF rating.
After a couple of days using an Excel spreadsheet template, RYA NHC, supplied by Jon Eskale, a spreadsheet template was created.
Hopefully 
, it will all work for the MSC Week 2025 from 7th to 11th July 2025 in Durban , South Africa.
If anyone is interested in using the external spreadsheet and getting the accompanying documentation, then please ask.
Kind regards,
Huw