I talked to Chuck after the awards re those comments. The bottom line is this, as long as we I-20s keep showing up in numbers and supporting the race, we are going to be in it. So that part is up to us. The other thread of this argument is how do we get Nacra to open up the sail plan (as it apparently is in Europe) to make us more competitive and sail design evolves, and or hold Elliot Patterson more accountable for quality control it this is in fact a real issue. I do agree we all put alot of extra stress on our spins this year with our tight double traps as we tried to follow the f-18s upwind, and this could certainly have led to failure.
So how do we open up the I-20 to box rules for sail design???
We get together as an owners association and start controlling our own destiny, instead of letting the "Class Assoc." (jack, mark Biggers, Skip Elliott,) keep gouging and jerking us around.Since Performance was bought by Euorpeans, they don't seem to have a care in the world for the N-20 anymore( no viable F-20 class in Europe) , except to jack our prices to the sky.
Any N-20 owner's that have an interest in this should PM me with contact info, so we can at least get a database of owner's together.
Larry, Chuck's got an agenda, history repeats itself. This exact situation was where the Tybee 500 was born.Now he's acting exactly like his nemesis and the end result is bound to be the same.
Todd Hart
"I said, now, I said ,pay attention boy!"
The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea Isak Dinesen If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most. E. B. White
