Thomas is saying exactly the way it was out there so i have to fully agree with his good and stated report he wrote.The best sailor did win not the boat.
You can say that the value of boats are going down when this change to curved boards is going to happen, if it will happen but what i do not understand is that when Marstrom made the new model A-class he had the change to put some things in it like the canted boards or canted hulls and he did not , for his reasons ,but the development of the class is not stopping. Maybe he created for him selve the problem of getting a boat which is loosing money in re-sell because it has not canted boards or hulls. But i think the boats will keep there value because they are build very nice. He did ofcourse a lot of money investement to get the new boat out but he did now that the canted boards where already there and can give some advantage, so you can not yell to the class now and try to stop some developments. The ballot track is the only way to do it and the proper way to do it and i did understand they made a proposal for a ballot so let wait and see what will happen. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif" alt="" />
