Stephen... you mentioned Capricorn Nationals and of course you are doing the F18 Nationals and worlds.
What is your definition of Class here... Why do you have or support “Capricorn Nationals”?
IMO, It would be like having a Nationals for Flyer A cats… but not Mark IVs or V’s or Marstroms or A2’s etc etc. What is the point?
How does having a builder sponsored exclusive nationals help your racing class which I assume is the F18 class.
What am I missing here? Don’t you undercut your class… “F18’s”… by setting up a situation where you are competing for your members time and money with a subset regatta called Capricorns, or Nacra or Hobie nationals?
One could make the argument that the F18 class should pull and ISAF move and declare sailors who compete in unsanctioned nationals… like Capricorn nationals out of bounds and banned from the F18 nationals
Capricorn are merely doing here what the other big two (Nacra & Hobie) do as well trying to offer both one design and formula racing. The difference is that the people organising the Capricorn nationals actually invited the other F18 classes to attend (although I belive none did). It would have been interesting to see how they would have handled it if someone won the Capricorn nationals on a hobie.
