In commenting on various post I will switch roles from time to time. Some comment I make as a chairman of the F16 class and others as a private F16 sailor. Yet others again as a proxy for Greg Goodall as he is unable to reply himself with current preparation for the F18 worlds that is on within a week or so.

I will denote my role by naming it between accolades.

Poster: 1863
Subject: Re: Second and third rule change proposal ! =last ones



(Chairman)

>>It seems to me that the real issue behind our current rules discussion is how do we grow the class, encourage creative thinking, and still keep someone with deep pockets from outspending the rest of us?


THis is not really the issue at hand. Somebody can make hulls out of gold for all I care, as they will be heavy as hell , are fragile and generally inferiour in performance. Such as effort can never upset the class even though the owner sinks huge soms of money into that.

So outspending is not the core issue.

The core issue wether a certain aspect convinces other sailors that they must have that aspect as well to be competitive and to what extend such an aspect may be allowed to cost.

In case of glued carbon beams to increase in stiffness and thsu related increase in performance is noticable and may well therefor start of a sequence of events that will result in everybody getting plafform with glued in beams that are as good as impossible to ship internationally and are noticably more expensive as well.

The combination of these two drawback my well break the back of the F16 class. At least that is the opinion of Greg Goodall of AHPC.

I think the next comment is a good one :

>>some people will always cheat. The trick is to keep the “cheaters” and/or big spenders from dominating the racing by balancing out high tech and low weight.


Wouter