Tony,
I am looking forward to seeing your new boat on the race course at Christies with or without a spinnaker.

All,
Mozzy sailors without spinnakers race at open events and are capable of achieving a good result against other classes which use spinnakers and those that dont.

Mosquito Building Rules and restrictions show the latest revision Jan 2001, things like hull constuction methods, hull measurement methods, beam orientation and some sail requirements have been clarified and changed to allow the use of the "latest materials and methods". The rules have changed in the last 38 years, incremental change which I am grateful for since I race an 18 year old Boyer boat. More changes are to be voted on at the next AGM. The Mosquito certainly isnt "exactly as it was designed 38 years ago".
Its a good design utilising advances in materials used in sail and hull construction to allow the Mosquito to keep pace with more recently designed cats.

I have no immediate plans to fit a spinnaker to my boat. I decided against it 6 months ago for various reasons. I have enjoyed watching the development of the Mosquito spinnaker, particularly the few races I have seen it used and looked forward to some more racing against spinnaker equiped Mosquitos.

Darryn
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