I know you weren't; seriously.

With respect to Northerners; ALL builders except Bimare wanted to make the minimum weight higher. I must add to this that Bimare wasn't into the jib and extra width (to the current 2.5 mtr) so ... Anyways; apparently not only northerners were to be persuade to get down to the current minimum ready to sail weight.

In practice the rules allow a platform of 100 kg's without spi and jib. which typically leads to 105 kg catrigged with kite; 102 kg's in sloop no kite setup and 107 kg's with everything.

There were proposals to make this 115 kg or 120 kg all up. "At least 110 kg's" was expressed. With the mood in the class that at least carbon masts should be allowed and that the Taipan crews shouldn't be forced to carry weight we got it down again to 107 kg overall and that is where the flexibility stopped.

Still I expect some builders to build underweight boats in the year to come and when the F16 class grows and the race becomes more competative. AHPC has always done this to me knowlegde, they still do it with A-cats to make sure they weight in at exactly 75 kg's even after a few years have past and water gets into the fibreglass.

That is how it happened. I know this is not a direct answer to your posts but as the sensitivity of these issues is beginning to fade I think this history is of interest to the class.

Just some general interest comments ;

Wouter