Irked by IRC

US Sailing just posted the IRC handicap numbers for most of the J120s participating in the Bayview Mackinaw. It was our hope that the numbers would be reasonably close but there is a 34 minute differential over 48 hours between Merlin and Night Moves. What makes it even worst is that Merlin is hull #98 and Night Moves is hull #99. Hank Mistele is pissed and I dont blame him. After 7 years of racing one design we have found absolutely no difference in boat speed with these boats. Luiz Kahl has refused to make our ratings the same so here we are stuck with this problem. The J120 owners are in this class because we wanted to race boat for boat. There has to be a better way!