YES! What bothers me about the Portsmouth tables is than when certain new designs (Taipan F16, for example) arrive on the market they “define” several configurations and get several assigned numbers. My issue is that this flies in the face of the main doctrine of a main table with modification factors.

The modification table says, “Sail lighter and you go faster, take off a jib and sail slower.” Starting with the Taipan 2-up sloop with jib and spin let’s calculate the uni/spin rating. Taipan class rules have no class weight so when sailing uni you MUST use L4 (see new Portsmouth L4 rule) . With this in mind, take the Taipan F16 sloop with spin at 65.3 and apply the L4 light-weight modification of 0.97. Then use the US modification of 1.026 for taking off the jib. This gives you 65.0 for the uni, slightly FASTER than the 2-up sloop (25 seconds /hour).

However, the “special” rating for the uni has been assigned 66.4 which is 2 minutes pre hour SLOWER than the sloop! Why should it get a “special” slower rating when Portsmouth provides for a modification calculation that say it's FASTER?

65.3 x 0.97 x 1.026 = 65.0
Table value = 66.4 ???

The Mystere 4.3 came out with 4 ratings when it was new. It’s down to two. It should be ONE and then use the modifications as EVERYONE else must do.

If you sail one design, do whatever you want. If you sail Open Portsmouth everyone must use ALL the rules ALL the time. Otherwise, it’s just typical Florida BS politics.

Perhaps Portsmouth politics are like the quote from Animal Farm, "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."