That is an interesting concept, Rolf.

As the F18 winners of the last few years have all been sailing a basic Tiger platform with maybe one or two upgrades in the sails. (Battened jib = Booth, F18 fathead mainsail, new cut spi).

So if this is psychological thing then their is no danger at all as as you say some guys first has to beat these sailing gods with such a freak design.

I again bring up the A-cat class. We have seen some freak designs here and they newer caused a major upset in the class. Afterall, such weirdness needs first to be proven against very good sailors on "normal" boats and that is no small thing to ask.

My point here is that the class itself is largely selfregulating on these issues without any need to such rules.

Wouter