Wouter, I honestly do not know any class or group that correspond to the description you wrote above.
I think you wrote your perception of a class or group as you see it, I attend quite a lot of races and do not recognise the negative attitude or behaviour you portraied.
But others do. In the past, several crews from certain classes did express such views and were looking to switch to the F16's partly for that reason. Additionally, I myself was forced to change my sailnumber at the very last moment because some well known racer claimed ownership of the same number even when he didn't sail in my class or even on the same course ! Better still, he had already decided to not sail at all because of the conditions but pushed through the protest anyway.
I'm really not making this up.
Will you be at the clinic yourself ? I can be tempted to drop by for a beer (it is a 20 km round trip by bicycle for me).
Wouter
