RS200 or ...?

Originally posted by craiggo Soggy, I think the definitions are a bit greyer than you imagine. The rules for most multiple builder classes have tolerance bands to allow potential home build. Accurate production techniques such as CNC machined plugs and moulds now mean that builders can really exploit the tolerances therefore producing boats that are subtly different to previous boats but still in class. This applies to Albacores and Fireballs with Woof pushing the Albacores in one way, and winders in the Firballs.

I've been racing dinghies for over 40 years. I'm well aware of building tolerances and how professional boat builders have been using them for decades. The amount of extra accuracy to be gained by CNC over what a skilled boat builder can achieve is going to be a couple of millimetres at best, which is trivial. The real advantage of CNC is in labour, and hence cost, saving.

Originally posted by craiggo So in a sense they are restricted and not fully one design.

Drivel.

Soggy, I think the definitions are a bit greyer than you imagine.

The rules for most multiple builder classes have tolerance bands to allow potential home build. Accurate production techniques such as CNC machined plugs and moulds now mean that builders can really exploit the tolerances therefore producing boats that are subtly different to previous boats but still in class. This applies to Albacores and Fireballs with Woof pushing the Albacores in one way, and winders in the Firballs.

So in a sense they are restricted and not fully one design.

The meaning of the terms development class, restricted class and one-design class have been well known for generations. Jack Holt and Ian Proctor knew how to use the terms correctly. Anyone who tries to pervert the meaning of these terms must have an inflated opinion of himself since he clearly holds himself more knowledgeable than two of the greatest dinghy designers of all time.

The Albacore is a one design too. [wipes OT treatise on one design]

There's a couple at Chew, but not often out at he same time. Might be more often over the winter though.