Tim,
You said,
I have never seen anyone measure sails at a cat regatta but at all national dinghy championships, you must show up a day early and they do measure them.
This happens at all national catamaran championships of classes that allow open sails -- for instance, the Wave Class and the Tornado Class and, I'm sure, the A-Class, and maybe the Shark Class.
And at national events involving the Hobie class boats, the boats themselves all have to be weighed, and if they are under minimum weight, they have to add weight to the boat. And the crews are weighed, and if they are too low on crew weight, they have to add weight for that, also.
At the Spring Fever Regatta all the F18's were up in one area being measured and weighed -- and that was not even a national championship.
Lots of weighing and measuring going on out there that maybe nobody notices.
