I wrote the rules with trapseats in mind. It's not explicit because the philosophy here is "if it's not specifically excluded it's OK" rather than the "if it's not specifically permitted it's illegal" philosophy that most classes have.
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<br>Are there any limitations that should be placed on trapseats? The IHCA has some rules about the skipper's body not crossing the centerline, etc, but as I don't know much about trapseats I didn't know how to take that. We could do a section like:
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<br>16. Trapseats
<br>16.1 If a trapseat is attached to the boat, the helmsperson shall nominate which side of the boat he/she shall steer from prior to each race.
<br>16.2 Ifa trapseat is attached to the boat, no part of the helmsperson's torso shall cross the centerline of the boat.
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<br>I don't know what the implications of that are, but that addition would also serve to explicitly allow trapseats.
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<br>As for rudders, has anyone experimented with rudder shape? I'd be interested to see what higher aspect ratio rudders would do for the boat. Possibly make it more pitch-pole prone. But maybe this is the sort of experimentation we want to encourage.
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