Good call Keith, I pretty much agree with you on the corrections and certainly agree on the way to approach the RC or scorer. Make it easy on them. Nobody I know would hit you up for cable lengths and purchases if they had already hit you for an oversized main and a spinnaker. The mast supports the oversized main and the shrouds support the mast. So those are all kind of a single mod. At least that would be my way of thinking. going to modern high aspect boards. yeah, that's probably worth some kind of hit. A spinnaker, for sure.

They don't want to make it unfair for you. But they do want to make sure you don't make it unfair for everybody else. So you being one and the others being many they should err slightly, but only within the range of uncertainty, against a highly customized boat.

Everybody needs to remember that the RCs job is to make it a fun and fair game for all of the players.

If, over time, they get a lot of experience with your boat in a variety of conditions then hopefully they will adjust your boat based on how it really can perform when well handled.