Yeah, but look at the width of the seams. If the person assembling the sail overlaps a little too much or too little, the shape (and size) changes.
BINGO!
For our little bits of input - we sailed at about 420. We both dropped weight for this race, we possibly could get down to 405-410. Not having sailed an F-18, it's still hard to conceive that the weight would not be an issue. Even on the 20 you can feel it.
There are simply no F-18s where we sail. We've got A-Cats, N-20s, and F-16s.
Consistency and quality in the sails would be nice. Example conversation as we tried to get the main looking right - "you guys need some more spreader rake to take the belly out of that sail, you should be around 1.75"" "yeah, but we're already at 3.25 inches" "hmmm, good luck with that...". Not to pile on, but it goes with the new trampoline that doesn't have the proper number of holes cut for the rear lacing, the self tacker with the random alignment of the supports, and the daggerboards with 1/4"+ of material that had to be trimmed off from both the leading and trailing edges. The best that it seems you can do is buy your new sails and take them straight to a sailmaker to have them fixed.
On the owner's class thing - maybe the way to look at it is forming a group that represents distance racing, not the buoys side of things. That way the OD class can stay the same, but there could be a different set of things defined for distance events.
