But seriously, the issue as I have said all along is not whether the stuff was legal or not, its more about the way it was handled.
If someone had (as you say: the balls, I say the gall) to protest the entire fleet for violation of the batten pocket rule, trap line rule or one of several other areas that are outside the rules then what would have been the resulting situation at a worlds? a big waste of time and money for everyone...
Certainly the piece of sticky cloth on a sail has less performance impact than dyneema trap lines compared to wire ones. But nobody bitched about it, and the worlds were run and won without anyone feeling they lost because they complied with the rules and used wire whilst the winners had dyneema.
