Okay, let me rephrase that.

If the SCHRS committee had been approachable in anyway for the last one and halve years then the F16 boat would have been rated equal to the F18's, under SCHRS, ever since it conception. SCHRS kicked the carbon mast rule out which gave the F16 1 % rating number loss, but this would have been corrected by recognizing our larger mainsail area (voted in spring 2005) then SCHRS used thus far.

I'm fully EXPECTING the new SCHRS to rate the F16's and F18's equal again because this time they will recognise that our mainsail is larger then SCHRS has accepted up till now.

Indeed I can not proof any claims beyond although the claim that SCHRS would have given us a F18 rating for the past 5 years IF THEY HAD used the RIGHT specs IS very much true and verifiable.

Apart from that I think 1 % rating difference is pretty negligiable so indeed his whole discussion is pretty much blown out of proportions. This is not directed at you Scooby but at the other contributors

Wouter