Now I officially had it with the following Aussies, what a bunch of winers are you guys !
Thanks for the complement, I am sure the other skipps appreciate being called winers..... However winners is spelt with two n’s mate.
Anybody else noticing how they are all from one particular location on the globe ?
You mean the place that breads the worlds best cat sailors. <img src="http://www.catsailor.com/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />
It you guys are not happy with the F16 class as it is now and is developping then pack your bags and buzz off. You all had you say multiples times and now is time to put up or shut up ! The rest of the world simply does NOT agree with you and never will. Accept it.
The rest of the World or those F16 sailors on this forum. Might be a bit different if it is discussed in the open forums or other open forums where some other knowledgeable and non bias sailors (without blinkers) frequent.
And please don't start bitching about boat weights again. My homebuild boat weights 121.8 kg ever since the beginning of the class and it never has been an item on this forum and I was never prevented from making this public knowledge. Now that some Aussie homebuilder achieves the same weight or worse every other Aussie in the land is screaming that sky is falling. What a load of crap.
I seem to remember Marcus voice his concerns about the weight too. I would love to hear his thoughts about the potential for rule exploitation in the class too.
Several homebuilders have build lighter and even down to minimum weight, lets not forget that homebuild taipan were build down to 102 kg overall weight and adding a spi doesn't take 20 kg ! So if you don't achieve the class minimum then you only have yourself to blame; same would apply to myself if I had any desire to blame anybody.
You just don’t get that a Taipan was never designed for spinnaker loads. Extra weight comes through structural reinforcement, increased hull volume on top of the hardware.
You have all been told several times that we understand your arguments but don't agree with them. You have been told how to officially progress your rule change idea's but you all refuse to follow those paths like normal people. All you want to do is kick up dust on a public forum and repeate the same arguments over and over over again. If you had been serious then you would have send in a rule change proposal months ago, but none of you did.
You don’t agree with them because we are wrong or it is detrimental to the F16 class. Why would I invest in a class so as to make rule changes that may not happen until it is too late. I am very serious about a 1 man / 2 man 16 footer and will be buying one. But doubt I will become part of the F16 class as it currently stands.
Ergo, guys are only trying to wreck the F16 class, nothing more nothing less. I have absolutely no respect for dishonourable behaviour like that. In my eyes that is sufficient grounds to be reprimanded, deleted and finally be banned althogether. You guys are already a long way up that ladder !
Nothing more or nothing less...... Not even close
Censorship will hardly solve the problem or stop the talk.