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IRC — penalty base counts rated boats only; unrated boats don't bloat penalties

An unrated boat in a handicap fleet cannot be scored, so it is excluded from the standings entirely. It also doesn't enter the penalty base — DNC and DNF use rated fleet size + 1, not total entries + 1.

5 boats are entered in the fleet but only 3 (Alpha, Charlie, Echo) carry a TCC.
Bravo and Delta are unrated and are dropped before scoring.

Rated fleet size = 3 → entries-based penalty = 4.
A5.2 default (no A5.3 in this fixture), so DNF and DNC both score 4.

Start 14:00:00

Boat 1 (TCC 1.0): finish 14:50:00  ET = 3000  CT = 3000.0  → 1st  (1 pt)
Boat 2 (no TCC):  finish 14:55:00  — excluded (no rating)
Boat 3 (TCC 1.0): finish 15:00:00  ET = 3600  CT = 3600.0  → 2nd  (2 pt)
Boat 4 (no TCC):  DNF              — excluded (no rating)
Boat 5 (TCC 1.0): DNC                                       → 4 pt (rated-only entries+1)
    no ircTcc — unrated, dropped before scoring
    no ircTcc — unrated, dropped before scoring
      Bravo (sailor 2) excluded — no expected entry
      Delta (sailor 4) excluded — no expected entry

Race arithmetic

Series standings