Several parties have introduced argument in favour and against increasing the minimum weight; some have even suggested an alternative modification.



It seems wise to redefine the proposal.



The 3 issues at hand are :



-1- Raising the minimum weight by an X amount to stay affordable, durable, homebuildable, in business or competitive. The amount X or the wording is now open for discussion as that seems to be of interest to.



With the introduction of the above point I would like add that with increasing weight to much the equality under Texel to the F18 class may fall.



-2- The second issue is the gap between minimum 1-up and minimum 2-up weight. This is proposed to be decreased from 5 kg's to 3 kg's (original proposal was to lower it down to 2 kg's but a small concession was given on this already)



-3- A new, 3rd, proposal was introduced and picked up by Phill, Helen and Berthos. This is to stimulate snuffer development and take out the uncertainty of what a good snuffer may look like and weight. Obviously the development in this field has only just started and predictions about weight are difficult at best.



They proposed to set the minimum sloop weight without all the gennaker gear for now and let the spi gears develop for a time. After the development has produced a good working setup we can modifiy the minimum weight rule to the minimum weight of the sloop + the weight of a spi gear.



Please lets have discussions on these three issues.



Wouter