I agree: F18 owners/members have to make decisions.
Don Findlay write:"Many of the requests for change have come from commercial interests and not from National Class Associations".
Limitation of daggerboard length is a new limiting rule for controling the cost (long daggerboards are very expensive).
Paint and single material main sail are only clarification made by the WC on previously existing rule.
Rules can change with a one year delay notice in order to have F18 builders/sailmakers playing with the same rules.
Just to be clear, I was thinking let the owners decide what boat they want to buy instead of having the class decide what they can buy. So, I think the class is being too restrictive.
