This is not a class issue; any boat participating in a race as an F16 must sail off the official F16 rating (that is based on the class rules and not actual measurements). Any boat declared otherwise may and must request an individual rating based on actual measurements of that particular boat. This rating will then have nothing to do with the F16 class and the F16 class will not accept any such measurements or certificates as valid for F16 racing.

F16 class rules only govern F16 racing and boats explicetly declared as such in open class races. Other situations are not the F16 class responsibility. Identical situations arise with respect to the F18 and A-cat classes. Therefor it is not a (F16) class issue.

Wouter