So, in the United States, because of the rating system we use, if we adopted the one-start, open-class system that you use in Europe the F-16 with spinnaker would have exactly the same rating as the F-16 with Hooter, and they would be racing boat-for-boat and be scored together for trophies. Is that correct?
This would certainly be the case for racing a T4.9 with additional downwind sail under Portsmouth. I'm not sure how it would work for an F16 compliant boat that didn't have a non-spinaker rating.
In that case, I would think that to race under the F16 portsmouth rating that you would have to be compliant with the F16 rule which has the midgirth requirement.
