Ohh Mary, No problem, you know I'm a sucker for answering questions.

Anyways; here a few answers.

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If a club has five F-16's and they have "declared F-16 events" attended by only those five boats, you just have to race with your fleet once a year to maintain your F-16 class eligibility?



Those 5 crews would have to organise a F16 event and invite all others and then hold the event. Yes. an initiative like that would be enough to earn a membership for next year. And any other F16 crews participating beyond those 5 would earn a renewal as well. Having such a rule will stimulate both the organising of events and stimulate attendence. That is the goal.

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OR if you go to one open class event that has at least 30 boats of all different kinds and you register as an F-16 as opposed to, say, a Taipan 4.9 with spinnaker, and even though there are no other F-16's at the event, that also will continue your membership eligibility for the F-16 class?


Indeed you have to register and race as an F16. (And F16 in prefered over F16hp). This is to allow owners that live far away from grouping of F16's to achieve their renewal as well. And it will get F16's to larger regional events.


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What happened to what you said about treating all the F-16 owners equally as members of the class, whether they race or not?


I never said such a thing. I said that the F16 as a class wants to facilitate both racing and recreational sailing of F16's. Simply participating in an event is not the same as actively racing a boat.

You only have to show up and participate. Events like Hagar are available everywhere and can be considered as a recreational touring event as well.

We do is it needed to have such a requirement.

Simple to prevent that all kind of boat owners become a members and will do their best to vote down any chance or amendment.

I'm thinking about for example strickt One-Design Taipan 4.9 sailors that have no intention what so ever to ever sail with a spinnaker but could become members otherwise. Or Prindle 16 sailors or any other boat that fully complies with the class rules.

We don't prevent them from becoming members, but they have to show that they are serious F16 sailors by sailing at least ones a year as an F16 boat with "first in wins" or using the F16 handicap. This should be a simple requirement to satisfy.

Wouter



Wouter Hijink
Formula 16 NED 243 (one-off; homebuild)
The Netherlands