F16 secretary,

Understood.

I have one further question. For me personally it is of interest how the boats that transition from compliant to non-compliant by a rule change are required to continue as F16's. Meaning how will these boats be handled under the new rules and/or will they be forced to buy new gear or have parts rebuild to become compliant again.

To give an example : In the new rules more mast area is included in the mainsail sail measurement, making the total area of the mainsail itself smaller. If a F16 sailor has a newly cut mainsail that is optimized but compliant under the current rules (like maybe the Alter Cup boats) with a total area of 14.95 sq. mtr, then adding the bottom section of the mast(area wise) will make him non-compliant at 15.02 sq. mtr. Will this sailor be allowed to use this mainsail till it is destroyed or thrown away or is he required to actively recut it ?

In effect, what I'm asking for is to include (in the voting) the procedure for dealing with formerly compliant parts that become non-compliant if the change is accepted. I think this should be an integral part of a proposed change.

Wouter