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These basic aspects of racing should not be opposites or exclusionary in either direction as mistakenly presented but should be set up to be integral and constructively work with one another, -- class and rated racing if we are to really set up a benificial functional accepted stardard for race stucture that is integral with class structure that will help {grow and promote the sport }.

If a rating system can not develop ,change and grow with the sport and obvious direction it is taking then like so many dead boat classes of the by-product of the system it currently helps produce ,- it too should go the same way ,-

The real problem is not growing development and the preference for Formula Classes as acknowledged ,-the real problem is a non-intergral often disfuctional rating system.

Simpily stated again ,it needs to develop and change and grow -base the rating system to be intergral and compatable with basic box rule CONCEPTS of design measurement rating of Length Weight and Sail area WHICH A-Class AND ALL DEVLOPMENT CLASSES ARE BASED IN as the foundation of rating ,then add times as a check or indicating factor .
It will take some time and work to develop correctly but the benifits over time are the best way to really help promote and grow the sport.

By continueing non integral contrary displaced concepts within the sport inherant in the current rating system that now serve to divide factions within that have proven detrimental in numerous ways and that a better type of rating system can readily replace with all the same benifits as reason given for its existance then it is time to grow and promote a better form of rating to benifit all .