Advertising via sail numbers? 55

Sorry to go back a bit but was driving so kissed it all...

The problem with rule adherence is that you either adhere or get dsq no matter how silly it seems. Otherwise who is to decide when it is serious enough to implement penalties? When is that little bit of reinforcing on your sail too long, 5mm, 10mm or 100mm?
The only way would be a kangaroo court, I don't know maybe on a forum or the like, somewhere like y&y.

Originally posted by sandgrounder Originally posted by Jamesd Years ago i was disqualified from 4 races of a Laser national champs because the first 2 numbers of my sail number were blue (and not red). Basically the rule states that the first 2 and the rest of the numbers must be contrasting. I lost my hearing because apparently the colour blind tw*t of an umpire (f-ing jobs worth) couldn't clearly distinguish between the blue and the black on a dull day! Probably should have appealed......but got so fed up up with the class i sold my laser a week later.  The blue numbers were there only because the morning of the regatta when i picked up the sail, they were all i could get hold of, i explained this.......but i still broke the rules! This wasn't performance enhancing in anyway, infact its probably the least effective way of "cheating" in any class, yet the rest of the fleet sail round like bumper cars and look away when crossing you on port.....but that is a different matter.      Did you get a good price for the Laser?

Originally posted by pondmonkey can I just check something... when I got home from collecting the Solo I noticed someone had left a rolled up load of lead roof flashing bolted to the boat.  This must be some weird part of the boat building process or something, some 'fred in a shed' work around no doubt. Naturally I unbolted it and chucked it in the recycle bin. I just wondered what would happen if I deliberately had left it in there... y'know adding some illegal strengthening to the centreboard case or something, would that have been breaching the rules too?

Where's this bit about the Voltaire quote?

Years ago i was disqualified from 4 races of a Laser national champs because the first 2 numbers of my sail number were blue (and not red). Basically the rule states that the first 2 and the rest of the numbers must be contrasting. I lost my hearing because apparently the colour blind tw*t of an umpire (f-ing jobs worth) couldn't clearly distinguish between the blue and the black on a dull day! Probably should have appealed......but got so fed up up with the class i sold my laser a week later.