If others are about, I could definitely be tempted to come down on the Wednesday evening. Would come down after work and have the boat rigged for a Thursday sail.
Unless anyone objects, I'll be 1-up on the Friday and 2-up on Saturday/Sunday (it's term-time...). Is there anything in the rules about changing crew mid-event?
Paul
Colin and I have discussed this issue at length over numerous beers and decided it wouldn't be in the current F16 ethos if we prevented people changing from solo too two up during an event. However, it does seem reasonable to declare the changes well prior to the event as in this instance so crews aren't just dumped on the shore due to light conditions or vice versa you take a crew on because the wind has increased.
I think if declared well in advance (say +1 month) so there can be no real posibility of a weather forcast being used then I would be OK with this, but if people were to make these decisions a few days in advance, or so I would have a problem with this. Problem is that
IF we were to allow this we would need to write the SSI's in such a way as to
ALLOW it. There is a change of crew going on, and this needs to be allowed by the PRO, SSI's etc and they need to be documented, standard SSI's do not allow a change of crew except in exceptional circumstances. Perhaps on the entry form there needs to be a "On entries RECEIVED up to 1st April 2007, you may declare Who (and not just helm+crew or helm) will be sailing the boat on which days. This will be
BINDING."
If thiink the idea has merit, but the implementation must be cast iron.
