Its irrevelent at what height the front stay joins the front bridle, as long as the front stay base remains on the centre line, as soon as there is any rotation of the top point an arc will form however small ( basically the radius of the distance between top point and bottom point looking straight down ), causing the mast rake to change.

I personally would favour a change in the rule to allow mast rake, it would on long distance racing help reduce an over powered rig. After all we are a semi develpment class, whats the problem.

However from other class's which have gone down this route, around short form racing, the time lost to set up the canted rig far out ways just sailing the boat and keeping in front in clean air.

Any way Macca is bored and just raising pedantic points of no real worth to the class to basically wind people up. When Macca designs, builds and races a boat within the class then I think we should start to take more notice of his internet scribblings. Up until that point he is just another interested internet scribe in my view and his views are just that, internet musings.