Marcus and others,




Actually, it isn't up to them. Rule 1.7.2 was included in the class rules in 2002 after the general acceptance vote that also explicitely allowed the adjustment of the diamond wire tension DURING racing. As such there is no situation of intepretation.

This vote was a direct result of the fact that some of the Bim 16 boats at the time were said to have this setup and the fact that we analysed it to be an inexpensive and possibly advantagious setup. We reasoned that if it is inexpensive that there is no reason to exclude it from the class.

We don't see this setup very often in F16 class as its benefits require very good understanding of how the rig behaves and the risk of setting it wrong and only make performance worse is very large. The subject was researched in the early years of the F16 class using input from skilled sailors like Goodall, Anderson and others; as well as researching the performance history of this setup in the A-cat class where is found more often.

There is no conflict in the class rules, we have only found a small misalignment between the official class rules and a (quick and dirty ?) summary of the class rules. Of course the official class rules always take precedence over any derived summaries etc.

In my opinion the summary is not part of the class rules (never was) and can as such be altered without any official AGM or voting procedure.

Wouter