I've met Macca personally (although briefly) and treating him like a troll is IMO not fair since he is probably one of the best sailors on the forum by quite some margin (except for Bundy offcourse!) and knows his stuff.

Ignoring him here does not resolve anything, we might as well continue the discussion and finish it for good. (and please everyone stop taking everything so seriously). <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif" alt="" />

Anyway. The discussion about 3DL and broadseaming got some people excited but since I never take anyone's word for anything (I work in IT<img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />) I decided to form my own opinion.

Here are my own findings (not that anyone cares, but otherwise I spent an hour Googling for nothing;)):
3DL/Broadseaming discussion:
Broadseaming is indeed not used in 3DL sails. I define a seam as the area where two pieces of cloth are sewn together.
Since there is no sewing there cannot be any seams, no discussion there right?
The panels that go onto the 3D mould are shaped to fit but more for practical reasons than for shaping the sail. And if the panels are joined together on the mould this is only temporarily and does not qualify as broadseaming.
Anyone please correct me if i'm wrong, but this is how I understand it.

Boat weight discussion:
In think Macca has a point where he says (If I interpret correctly. Macca?) that there could potentially be an arms race going on all while staying within the class rules.
In theory he is right, you could buy a nice new Blade today and the next day some Bartarelli wannabe comes along and spends $$$ on exotic building materials and totally be The Man and perform total pwnage on the race course.
In practice however this is very unlikely since the spirit of the class is also affordability and class growth.

Did I sum everything up correctly?

In my observation the class wants to be both a development class like the A's and a commercial class like the F18s.
Maybe these just don't go together very well?
If the class wants to grow the rules should be tightened but that goes against the development part (bit of a paradox i guess).