Just a minor follow up on our discussion earlier in the week on the open forum about nation codes... Wouter I believe that you said that these would be determined by the citizenship or residency of the skipper/crew. However my reading of the ISAF rules (RRS Appendix G 1.1(b) - Appendices D-G here) is that the nation code denotes the national authority of the boat.

This is not necessarily in conflict (a national authority may use the residency/citizenship of the skipper to recognise the boat), but the particular way the ISAF defines nationality applies to ISAF recognized classes, and by implication to classes recognized by national authorities. So requiring adherence to the ISAF rules is fine for placement, but doesn't actually provide a relevant mechanism for determining nation codes for a class that is not yet recognized.

Of course if F16 ultimately becomes recognized then there is no problem, but in the meantime it seems to me that if the F16 rules are going to make a nation code compulsory (Proposal 2 - which I agree with), then they also need to explicitly define a convention for determining which nation code will be used (such as what Wouter has elsewhere proposed). Simply referring to the ISAF rules on this point will not be sufficient.

So unless there is already something there that I've missed, I would suggest that there needs to be an addition made to the F16 rules that makes the definition of nation codes explicit.

Apologies for being pedantic.

Mark.