Pete - we all get it that you don't like the idea of not being able to tune the boats to your liking - enough with it already. The Alter Cup has always been unique in several respects and this is/was one of them. Your analogy to all of those other events is what is silly, those people are providing their own equipment, not supplied equipment, apples and oranges. It has already been said, the point is to take the boat out of it, make it the sailors. +1
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The cure for anything is salt water - sweat, tears, or the sea
Isak Dinesen
If a man is to be obsessed by something.... I suppose a boat is as good as anything... perhaps a bit better than most.
E. B. White
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