Mark, several years ago Brian Karr tried to get a N20 class going, with real rules, member driven, etc. and as I recall (and I could be very wrong, maybe BK will enlighten us) he had a lot of problems getting the guys (Jack Young) at Nacra to allow a class to form at all, because they wanted complete control over the future of the boat vs. allowing the class membership to control what would be -legal- vs. not legal. This was about the time they went to the self takcing jib, the mid pole snuffer and the new tramps.

If a N20 "class" had voted to not allow these modifications, what then? That was the logic from the factory as far as I heard.