Anyone can enter the ICCT, you have to submit a entry, pay the fee and bring a boat. Check out the SYC website. If the response was overwhelming, the hosting YC would have to make a determination on how many challengers they would want to accept, since match racing requires umpires, you need a significant amount of on the water support for each race. The ICCT has one umpire boat per competitor racing on the water. So, the number of competitor boats would largely depend on the number of judges the RC could supply or how long or how many races you needed to run.

The HT class supplied charter boats for Johnny and Charlie and Enrique's team. Mitch and WF brought their own boats. So, if someone from the uni world, or any cat class wanted to compete, I am sure that the class would do its best to support them.

With regard to the sails, you can go smaller if you want according to the HT rule set, its a max 20sq m main, but you can go smaller and you can reef if you want.

Changes in equipment are permitted in the case of breakage, or if the event decides to permit changes then this overrides the class rule. Southern YC is sponsoring the event, so the class's position is that they have the final word on rule interpretation for this event.

Bill Vining
HT Class