Darryn's got all the right links there. Nothing of any consequence has changed in them for a couple of decades.

The racing is very good here in Vic as well. It's always a tough race at the front of the fleet. Helped by the fact that all the new boats are pretty much identical.

The "Spirit of the rules" sounds more like an opinion or state of mind than a rule. I imagine it would get mentioned if someone built something wacky and tried to call it a Mosquito. I mean a set of rules as simple as the Mosquito's are always going to have a hole or a weakness somewhere which would mean something completely off-the-wall could be built without breaking them - but what would be the point?

Most of us sail Mosquitoes for the competition, the social side, and for the pleasure of sailing a boat that simply works. There's not much point going to all the trouble of building a boat just to prove there are flaws in the rules. Might as well build an F16 where anything goes.

The tall rig never went anywhere. It was obvious early on that the mast section would have to be replaced as well - leading to a sequence of inevitable changes which would have ended up with the Mozzie turning into the Taipan (again). No point