Hey Mike,I have been seriously considering the Great Lakes F18 Championship at Twas the same weekend as Muddy Waters. There is also a CRAW regatta only 3 hours away the same weekend. The draw to Carlyle is the chance of warmer temps. That's still two months away.

Interesting point about the Tiger rules and F18 rules. How about this situation. A Tiger at 305 lbs crew shows up. Under F18 rules he has the wrong rig, and that's that. This is my personal situation, which led be to buy a NACRA rather then the Tiger. I understand I could run a small sail plan on the Tiger, I chose to avoid the issue altogether. Personally, I feel the Hobie Class is doing the Tiger and Formula class an injustice by adopting a second set of rules regarding sail plan. The Tiger was developed around the formula, why would they adopt rules that don't allow the formula? I may never understand the ways of the HCA, or as I like to refer to it the H(16)CA.

It is in the race organizers best interest decide how they plan to handle these situations and include that policy in the race instructions and NOR before it becomes an issue. I feel that unless its a Hobie points regatta, F18 rules should override the Tiger rules, but that is up to the race organizers,