The draft rules have been made up. They will be displye at the F16 HT webpage after a few last points have been cleared up :
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<br>One of these points is performance equalisation for crews of different weight.
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<br>Introduction :
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<br>THe F16 HT designs are made equal by requiring that they are designed with certain features and by altering the jibsize according to a formula. This formula relates a set of parameters (measurements) to a maximum allowed jib sailarea size at which the boats as the same performance as the F18 class. Yes, you've read it right as the F18 class. Crewweight is one of the parameters present in the formula. This means that crew of different weights sail different jibsizes.
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<br>The Question :
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<br>Do you, when you are presented with the choice, rather
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<br>-1- buy only one jibsize optimized for your normal crewweight and take the performance hit when overweight and not race when underweight. (last is only at 2-up sailing, solo sails always.
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<br>-2- have to buy and sail more than one jib. Example, one optimized sized jib and one at minimum size. (this way you can never sail underweight.
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<br>-3- Have the weight range divided in more than one weight group and fix one jib size to each group
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<br>-4- Have the weight range divided in more than one weight group and fix one jib size to each group and have corrector weights attached to your boats to get you up to the reference weight of your group
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<br>-5- Use one jib size and attach (maybe large) weights to your boat to make your boats have the weight that equals its preformance to the F18 class.
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<br>-6- Just fix the end preformance to the F18 and leave to choice wether to adhere to this via multiple jibs or corrector weights or an combination of this to the sailor/crew. This means working with a simple formula to calculate the values needed for this.
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<br>-7- Other option ?
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<br>Please answer with the number of your prefered option in the subjectline. By the way please choice 3 three options in order of preference, starting with the most preferred.
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<br>Thank you
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<br>Wouter
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