Your splitting out the unis is another sign of the issues involved with spinnaker boats.

At several regattas this year, beginning with Spring Fever, the PRO has announced warnings to non-spi boats about the speed, limited vision and lack of control that spi boats may have, downwind of course, and for US to watch out for them no matter if we were on starboard.

This problem is exacerbated for uni rigs because we are even slower downwind.

I am starting to understand how monos feel when we are blowing by them on a downwind reach.

A Tiger doing the "wild thing", gets there very fast.

Having to worry about a boat, or boats, overtaking you from astern, going much deeper, at three times your speed, with limited control, is no fun.

The reverse is true for the spi boats. Worrying about a unirig, slowly reaching across your course on starboard.

But to caution the non-spi sailors to watch out for the spi boats and avoid them is unfair.

Forcing one group of sailors to adjust their tactics because of another group has a faster, harder to control boat is a violation of R.R.S. Rule No. 2 "Fair Sailing" which is about "sportsmanship and fair play".

We shouldn't have to make a choice between being run over by a spi boat or sailing our proper course.