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Originally posted by Daniel Holman No no rules are rules I'm totally with you on that, and in principle, any knowing transgression is pretty bad form. I'm pretty sure that all of our boats, if scrutinised aggressively enough, may not be totally compliant to the letter of the law. However I think in this case the illegality of tape drive is a total anomaly and offers no performance gain over similar technologies. My point on subjectivity was that the illegality of tape drive is based on a subjective interpretation of a rule. It's still illegal, it's just a bit dumb that its illegal. I'm not advocating people's subjective interpretation of rrs or class rules! I think that the whole context of this situation shows how highly most people regard te rules, even on nominally trivial matters like the spacing of sail numbers. I stand by my assertion that those guys are worthy winners, if a little naive in thinking their sail choice wouldn't draw heat, especially given what had gone before. Agreed though, if not kept on a fairly tight lead, things could descend into anarchy somewhat. Seriously think a little clause in merlin and firball rules is in order. More lebowski: http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8BdT5mFAk-Y&feature=fvwrel

Rules may well be dumb (sail numbers being possibly one of the worst) and I'm sure most classes will have them. That's when it's up to the members to change the dumb rules. I'm sure that some classes will be more difficult to change than others though.

No no rules are rules I'm totally with you on that, and in principle, any knowing transgression is pretty bad form.
I'm pretty sure that all of our boats, if scrutinised aggressively enough, may not be totally compliant to the letter of the law.
However I think in this case the illegality of tape drive is a total anomaly and offers no performance gain over similar technologies. My point on subjectivity was that the illegality of tape drive is based on a subjective interpretation of a rule. It's still illegal, it's just a bit dumb that its illegal. I'm not advocating people's subjective interpretation of rrs or class rules!
I think that the whole context of this situation shows how highly most people regard te rules, even on nominally trivial matters like the spacing of sail numbers.
I stand by my assertion that those guys are worthy winners, if a little naive in thinking their sail choice wouldn't draw heat, especially given what had gone before.
Agreed though, if not kept on a fairly tight lead, things could descend into anarchy somewhat.
Seriously think a little clause in merlin and firball rules is in order.

More lebowski:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8BdT5mFAk-Y&feature=fvwrel

These are all good points, this is sailboat racing not 'nam, there are rules!

For maxibuddah: http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=VyFpOp8Ft0Q&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DVyFpOp8Ft0Q&gl=GB

I certainly wasn't advocating cheating earlier, and I think that any known deviations should be brougt to the attention of the race officer, preferrably not by a third party.. Multiclass pursuits on ponds are just about the most meaningless environment for qualatative testing which I think is a slightly dubious rationale.
I guess the point I was making was that I did 77mph on a motorway today,
I would hope this doesn't make me a bad person, and certainly not as bad as if I'd just been busted as a kiddy fiddler.
The legality of tape drive is a result of a subjective interpretation of a rule, with other products that go further against the intent of that rule being ok, and I don't see it giving an advantage, but equally they can't expect to get the result if knowingly not racing fully in class.
I don't think their transgression as severe as others at certain recent handicap events, for instance

Edited by Daniel Holman - 12 Feb 13 at 8:11pm

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