Dear F16 sailors,

In order of this discussion going on there is some clarification needed i think.

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The Technical committee should be keeping themselves aware of what is going on outside of the class and outside of the class rules. Only then can proper evaluations and advice be formulated when asked to do so. With blinders on such a committee can only rehash in class dogma's and that is not valuable.

The TC is just an advising committee to the GC because they are all sailors, measurers, builders and they know what is going on in the sailing world and know what the latest things are going on. If people have the idea that new experiments mentioned on this forum are disapproved then they are wrong, it is good to know about the experiments and take to you as information, if the rules are clear on the subject why should there be a TC to investigate the whole issue again if the outcome is already known. But the information can be put in the archive of people who wants to store this info.

As maybe a few people know a lot of us are working full time and also have a family with kids and wife on there side, so it will take some time to modify or add things in the little spare free time there is, we do not have all the possibility to work behind the pc for 16 hours a day and response on everything right away, we ask there fore some patient from people.

The point about the Catsailor forum is that not only F16 sailors are responding on posts which are put on that forum, and the bad thing for the class is that these people are stirring up the pot with not any advance for the class itself but only some loud discussions with people who are embarrassing others with only one result, that people interested in the F16 class, are turning there back to the class. This has already happened in the way up to the first Global Challenge at Zandvoort., there where people not coming to this event because of this bad way of discussions.
I think this will harm the class a lot when people are saying “F16 is that class who shout to each other at the Catsailor forum” and when that is happening nobody is getting the feeling of “be inclusive”.

If somebody thinks that the Catsailor forum is banned then there is a misunderstanding, everybody can put on that forum what he wants of course. And if somebody sees the failing from the GC to support on active communication then there is probably a wrong point of view. For example, the ballot done earlier this year. After a short note about this there was a lot of comment to do this via the internet tool because the class was set up on the internet. In response on that the GC did a huge amount of work to achieve this, only the response from the members was very disappointed, even a bit frustrating. The whole agm meeting points will be published on the internet so everybody can read what was discussed. Indeed the Agenda was not ready on time and published on time, this is a point on improvement next year. This was the first time ever that a set up like this was used in the F16 and of course there is enough space for improvement in the coming years.
There is also a worry about the fact that the GC should act like a dictator committee, but the only thing what they are doing is trying to put all the loose ends in more structured way and keep a very close eye to the rules on doing that. We try also to listen to F16 sailors as much as possible and even to non F16 sailors because they can have good ideas which will fit in the spirit of the class.
I think the post “self-inflicted”made is exact the thing where we all should be worried about, it has already happened, this is a missed change.

At the moment we have a GC with all dedicated people on board who are only looking in the favor of the F16 class and working hard to make the F16 class a success in the future.

Best regards,
Hans Klok
Chairman Governing Council.