The Sailcoth list has been in place for a number of years now, it is not a new development. We are all working inside the rules and the rules control the development.
What is being attempted here by the Tech Committee and the secretary of the class is the make a change to the existing rules in order to prevent one of their rivals continuing to sell class legal sails.
Once again:- this is not a development issue. It is a commercially motivated attack on a sailmaker.
I agree its not a development issue. I was merely pointing out that a DEVELOPMENT CLASS (
first sentence Franck, read it) such as the F18 does not require any more restrictions on sail cloth.
In My opinion it needs the opposite. It needs a proper structure put in place so when the next generation of economical, performance sailcloths come a long that there is a proper pathway to get them introduced.
We have had a case where a cloth has been added to the list at the whim of a boat manufacturer. And now a whole bunch of previously class legal cloths are going to be removed for no reason. Its an absolute shambles. Ill tell you straight up that no one will be able to tell the difference between 3 mil and 2.5 mil film by looking at it. The new list will just cause even more problems and even greater opportunity to cheat.
