Ok... I will retract my insult. But you are STILL missing the point... the PROCESS is flawed.

It is not a complaint about any particular problem with the rating table going into 2009.

The process is time consuming and flawed. In my post I summarized a failure of the process. Address or defend the failures of the process if you want to move the ball along.

John,

Of course it will take work... It takes work now to assemble results and send them in, process them etc etc.

But don't go overboard here. We are not trying to rate the F31's each customized to the owner's wish.

The vast majority of sailors are using a one design catamaran.. even an old member of the dead boat society and they will not need to worry about a rating certificate. If the boat is declared class legal by the owner... It has a measurement rating!
(old sails, heavy waterlogged boats will not sail to their rating... that is just life.

It's a Corinthian sport... You know if you change something important to go faster... you will have to get an individual rating.... Sail a class legal boat... go racing with a stock measurement rating.

If you decide to get creative and modify the one design boat... (That is your choice... but to race it you will have to pay to get a measurement rating for your new creation. Again... changing a tramp from Nacra to some third party is not going to change your rating...

We need measurement of the following boats which are currently raced and don't have a texel rating. (I used my personal texel PN database and did not check the SCHRS list) It's also important to know if the EU version of the boat differs from the US version as well...

Supercat 22 (Arc 22)
Supercat 20 Tall Rig
Hobie Miracle 20 with and without spin
Nacra 5.8 NA
Prindle 19MX
Hobie 16 single handed
Nacra F17
Isotope
Mystere 4.3
Mystere 5.5
Mystere 6.0
P Cat??? the west coast boat that is still raced and made fun of.

One off designs that were given a spot in the tables
CFR 20

Red Herrings!
The light weight Sandwich Island P19 was purpose built for Smythe for a worrel and is now taken apart under a house on Bodkin Creek in MD... It's not going to scare anyone. The owner never claimed it to be a class legal P19!
The Hobie 16 was a cheater boat in the Pan Am Games and the sailor was protested and booted for cheating... sad actually.

Any new boat design could be denied entry until the builder or owner got the thing measured and certified the boat as a class. We need to get about 12 boats measured... budget some money and we can get it done. We can always estimate the boat classes that don't comply and deny them entry in the Alter Qualifier's if they can't generate a one time class measurement... So we could generate a ratings table for all boats in the USPN table.