George,

You can't blame F16 class or us for the troubles of using the ISAF rating system. Besides as far as I know If you race that Stealth R solo you race of the same rating as well, so no difference there.

Also, from my perspective you have a choice indeed. Either we all pay some 50 bucks for a membership so I, Phill and others can recouperate some of the costs we made on your behalve or you can honour our volunteer work by entering at least one event per year.

I can fully understand that you may have different idea's but getting angry at me or the other volunteers will not be the way to sort a positive effect. Nobody can treat this class as something that can be taken for granted, as something that is just here to please them without them having to make a single effort themselfs. It doesn't work that way.

I and others do this because we want to grow this class and progres what it stands for, we put alot of time and effort in and we have never demanded any return from you guys. Now, we can do this in several ways. One is to have everybody pay a membership and work through the hassle of having to have a bookkeeping and living up to financial laws. OR we make the membership free or charge but demand some show of commitment to the class.

Otherwise everything becames a little to easy. Not to mention unstable because we'll open ourselfs up from take-overs from within. And I sure as hell don't feel like coughing up 150 dollars each year to maintain the www.formula16.com and www.formula16.org adresses when you are too lazy to come to one event per year. I'm willing to do that when I see some activity in the class and sailors hooking up for events and building the class together.

Now if there ae serious problems to meet the requirement then I say talk about it and work something out. I'm happy to hear your counterproposals. I'm open to suggestions.

Ohh before I forget you can also win membership by volunteer work. Like maintaining the website or making a PDF brochure. It doesn't have to be much just little things.

We don't want to pressure anybody but we do really want to see some active members.

Wouter