Yeah, I understand that, and it's just as -fair- as giving both the Uni and Sloop the same P number.

But the F16 class has no minimum crew wt. rule, so I don't know exactly which class rule you would be in violation of unless it were spelled out in the SI's.

But for the sake of discussion, I will throw out a What If scenario, and it has already happened, so it's not unheard of. You put on a big regatta. Sailors come from 500 miles away to race for the weekend. The first day it is blowing 25+ gusts. Some of the Uni guys don't want to go out, so they team up and go out. Now, on day 2, it's only 15, so they wall want to sail Uni. Well, the boats that never left the beach on day 1 are obviously not going to have a -score- from day 1, because they DNS'd. Or should I say, they will have a score of 1 more than the number of boats that did sail, let's say 5 did and 5 didn't. So they all get a 6, correct?

Come day 2, all 10 boats go out as Uni. Do the first 5 that sailed sloop on day 1 get to count their scores from day 1? And do they get to count their scores from day 2, racing in a "different configuration"? And what if one Uni on day 2 gets all bullets, but on day 1 he wasn't out, but had all 6's. What's his score then? Say they raced 5 races on each day.

If it were me, I wouldn't care, I would be at the keg talking about what a great time we all had out there, racing, not crying about how 5 boats shouldn't have been allowed to sail on day 2 because they were crewing on day 1.

But that's just me.