It also seems reasonable that he could get this adjustment waved in a local regatta.
We once allowed a guy to use his dog as crew in order to make minimum weight. We were not really worried about any boat that had a dog on board. And it was too cool to cross paths on the course and yell "Starboard!"
The dog would start barking at us. So even if we were on Port; we yelled. I'm not suggesting your Dad start barking though.
LOL!
That's priceless. Don't give him any ideas. And we are only interested in local open class regattas, just to have fun. So regardless of the rating decision, I plan to build some. Stamina for a 5+ race weekend regatta is also the issue.
Now- would a G-Cat have to correct the rating for having double traps? No idea if they came with two from the factory. Hell, ours had none.