John - remember the discussion we had with Dave during breakfast, in Houston in '09? Was that not right after the ISAF Youth Qualifier at ABYC?

Chuck Hawley has acquired multihull safety recommendations from around the country to include in a re-write of the OSR. I do know that the Gulf Yachting Association is in alignment with the Bay Area Multihull Association. Mark Hansen has played a role in this. The MHC Safety Comm you created has not been asleep.
If you, Matt, Dave, Mark,Hansen, and Mike Levesque would like to pursue this, let me know, and I will send you the stuff from Chuck.
The prescription to rule 40 is outside the lifelines of fairness and rarely enforced...BTW - Several competitors were in violation of said prescription during the previous Alter Cup and Means, nor Fairlie, said a word, even though, it was obvious. They did hire Liz to assist in a porch-side talk regarding respect for the Race Committee, which was out on the water that day, ready to race, while the competitors elected to remain ashore until it 'warmed up.' That WAS a Risk Management move, if I ever saw one.