Like I always say. I refuse to call the nacra 17 a F17 unless it get truly open class rules and allows 3rd party suppliers. Otherwise it is just a marketing gimmick and we'll end up with something akin to some guy calling some team "the F18 world champions" when they only won a 20 boat NACRA F18 world championship and NOT the true F18 world championship which was won by Bundock and Ashby. And this actually happened only a few weeks ago so this forum.

Additionally the Nacra Inter 20, which used to be a F20 but has gone one-design, is NOT called a Nacra F20 but rather the Nacra 20. So it is not like their hole product line is called F-something; remember the Nacra Infusion ?

And moreso I refuse to call basically the same boat by 10 different names. The change from I-17R to F17 was ONLY a larger spinnaker which can only be used by heavy skippers as the lighter skippers are still required to use the smaller (I-17R) spi. So basically it is still a Inter-17R, but since nacra has dropped the name "inter" with all their products I started using the name Nacra 17. Which is more in line with the naming convention of Nacra Infusion, Nacra F18 and Nacra 20 which they are using currently.

I can understand when people don't agree to this but that is the way I see it.

Wouter