Mark,
Every time you bring up litigation and responsibility issues you put another nail in the coffin of grassroots catsailing. Most people don't even think of that kind of thing until you plant that seed in their head.
Todd
GOOD!.... THAT IS MY FREAKIN POINT... IMO ignorance is not blissfull....While you have your head burried in the sand, dreaming of the grass roots days of sailing... somebody will bite your butt off or even worse DIE ...
When you don't take 100 percent responsibility to race or continue racing.... Its dangerous to me as a sailor on the course... as PRO, and as an Organizing Authority.
Accidents happen.... We deal with them. RR 1.1 is safety first.
It WOULD NOT BE AN ACCIDENT if some one goes out racing THINKING that X and Y and Z were REMOTELY responsible for their butt's safety or rescue. That would be NEGLIGENCE!
You get it... you race off shore and don't think anybody else will save your butt. Same standard for a buoy race or a casual sail off the beach.
Just look at all of the opinions which put responsibility on the PRO and OA...Bob Curry just declared spin boat and non spin boat race courses unsafe and cooked the OA for setting up the race this way. If a serious injury had occurred in the wave/n20 crash don't you think the insurance company on the hook for the money will be blaming the OA and their insurance company.
Now That will kill off a LOT of sailing!
