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Consider the cross section of disciplines in other sports. A similar range is required in sailing.Board, Mono, Multi, Solo, Double.


The equipment range should be wider:[color:"red"] Kite, Board, Monohull, Multihull and Foiler.[/color]

Could also read: "detached line controlled sail" equipment, "hand stayed sail" equipment, "single flotation volume" equipment, "multiple flotation volume" equipment and "dynamically supported weight" equipment.

Note that [color:"red"]crew number, gender, weight, ballast, "Dinghy", "keelboat" and "High Performance"[/u] are not "equipment" [/color]. Those are specifications that replace "monohull" equipment in order to manipulate the final results.

Likewise, we could specify "catamaran", "trimaran" and "Formula" instead of "multihull" in order to have more multihull classes included, without ever mentioning "multihull".

Also, boards could specify "slalom windsurfer", "wave ridding widsurfer" and "formal racing windsurfer" without ever mentioning "board".

A typical example is the use of "singlehaded heavyweight dinghy" instead of "monohull" in order to force the selection of the Finn class. Could just as well be "with a name that starts with FI and ends with NN".


Luiz