Dave you wrote
IMHO you either have the rules and live by them, or you open it up and learn what the future holds
So rule 8 was... NO FLYING BOATS.... I bought a boat..
just after I got a boat...they decided to change to the current rule 8... same idea... no flying boats... and make the rule technical. I voted against that change because I foresaw the current situation.
So, rather then honor the rule... half the class exploited the rule and boats now fly.
Last week... the US class forshadowed the push to change the rules again... to open them up.
Umm... what rules would you count on???
The proper thing to have done was to split the class into divisions... floaters and flyers and allow the floaters to honor rule 8.... No flying... and the flyers to dump rule 8 as the US now wants to do.... Had this happened at the last worlds.. everyone would be happy.
AS i noted... the Hobie 14 still has a North Americans and remains an ISAF class...
