The vote will be worded as is given in the leading post.

Note how part one doesn't specify anything about beams being from carbon or not. Part one only states :

"The hulls, beams and trampoline shall not be permanently fixed to one-another"

That'll be the wording on which vote #2 (#1 was about the jib leech) will be held.



Then a seperate and independent (3rd) vote will be held on part 2 dealing with the propose rule :

"The beams shall be made of an alumimium alloy."

And yes this rule ban titanium beams as well (Joke !)

Of course there is no reason why a builder won't weld alu plates to the beams and laminate them in.


One reason for splitting the vote is that the two proposals are trully independent and one is still valid without the other no matter what gets vote in and what gets voted out. They other is that we found that several persons would like to give a different answers on de individual parts.



>>Are we ready for the vote ?

We are getting to the final stages; I will propose that anyoen having a good idea on altering the proposals in text itself shall speak up in the coming week. That and the cooling off period that we use will put the introduction of the vote at about 1 to 2 weeks time.

Wouter