PHRF Regions & Classes

PHRF breaks boats into rating bands or intervals which race as individual classes that may vary based on the location on the Chesapeake Bay. For High Point scoring the Chesapeake Bay is divided into the following Regions:

1. Region 1 - Maryland North of the Bay Bridge

2. Region 2 - Eastern Shore of Maryland south of the Bay bridge, Southern Maryland and Potomac River

3. Region 3 - Annapolis and West River

4. Region 4 North - Rappahannock River area of Virginia

5. Region 4 South - Hampton Rhodes and York River

The events NOR and SI may include classes for PHRA A, B, C, non-spin, Cruising Spin and Cruising non-spin. Furthermore the OA can depending on the number of boats sub divide the PHRF A rating band into even smaller classes (A0, A1 and A2).

Class Codes

PHRF High Point is recorded on a Bay wide basis using class codes as denoted in the following table. Note that the class codes are not the same as the code flag shown in the class splits.