The blatant class rules disregard by this class is joke. Maybe people remember the f18 worlds back in Australia. Mitch Booth filed a measurement protest prior to the racing started so boats could be made legal (the removal of the jib furler from memory on the blogs). The jury consisted of the chairman who was a former ISAF VP who was also a former chairman of the ISAF centreboard committee. Also on the jury was the f18 executive secretary. In the jury room f18 ES said that the class had made the rule change at their AGM but had not submitted the rule change to ISAF. That was 3 months to write to ISAF and they didn’t do it. Only some of the competitors knew about the rule change. The jury ruled he protest invalid (no grounds every made why) and said the boats could race. They also said if they enforced the rule then 50% of the boats would have been DSQ as there was not enough fulrers to buy.

Sorry but the way the f18 class handle their class rules is disgraceful. ISAF is too gutless to do anything and the sailors just take it.