uuuugghh... According to the front page of Sailing Anarchy this morning, the wind limit / decision to start or stop racing doesn't fall to the PRO as we had thought. It falls to the SNG (Alinghi's club) "racing committee" of which the PRO, Harold Bennett, only has one vote. Also on the committee, is the antagonistic mouth piece for SNG, Fred Meyer who undoubtedly had a strong hand in writing in the (since deemed illegal) limits into the original NOR. Fred apparently showed up the first day wearing an Alinghi jacket and Harold made him turn it inside out so as to not broadcast it's colors and allegiance. With light air racing likely benefiting Alinghi's design, and a world of reasons a race committee can cancel a race, I've got a bad feeling about this.


Jake Kohl