Hi Alan
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<br>Do you have any thoughts about how to keep the wide beam boats in the class. The physics just seems to work against us.
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<br>Do you really have any H20 sailors who want to put a chute on their boat for triangle racing? In our area, the one fellow who did add a chute... wound up moving to an I20 a year later. I just did not see a lot of interest there. (Distance racing is a different story) What would a grandfather wavier be to get the boat up to a texel 95 rating.
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<br>Perhaps, the f20 rule should consider grandfathering in older and heavier designs using a combined boat weight /sail area ratio as Carl proposed but ONLY for the purposes of grandfathering existing designs.
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<br>I agree with your proposal of using the F18 corrector weight system.
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<br>The local fleet scene so far is
<br>Chesapeake / Div 11 area
<br>4 or 5 H20's
<br>4 Tornado's
<br>6 I20's
<br>1 N6.0NA no chute.
<br>2 P19 MX's
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<br>New England
<br>4 I20's
<br>20 N6.0's No chutes for triangles
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<br>Obviously, a formula class will not happen overnight so we will be racing portsmouth while we get to a formula class over time.<br><br>