Now now boys F Fifteens is only a small part of the reason, one course for all doesn't always suit everybody, but when you are a club you try and cater for a very widely different number of classes with minimum resources.

Datchet tries to cater for all by having the first race W/L and the next race a mix of Triangle followed by sausage.

Seems to work, they get typically good numbers even on a cold wet morning like this morning.

As to doing it wrong, a certain participant did Triangle followed by sausage and was told he was wrong as the other cats did sausage triangle, I still came last so I'm just even more confused now. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

My boat is a Stealth 'R'. It is not compliant with the box rules because it predates it (for example the hull length is 5.03m, 3cms longer than 5 meters). However this boat has been grandfathered as is into the F16 class, so I can sail it as a F16 with its original set of non compliant sails (sail area is similar, but the distribution is different as the jib is larger than allowed by the box rules).[...]

Now, if I put a larger main (compliant with the box rule, but no longer compliant with the original class setup) the letter of the rule says this boat is a F16 no longer! This seem a little harsh as I plan to sail solo and losing 1.5m of sail area can't be good.[...]

....by protesting your length at the end of the regatta