Advertising via sail numbers? 55

Originally posted by The Phantom Menace I think we're all a bit tired of you banging on for the last 50+ pages trying to rubbish businesses you don't carry favour for.  You've obviously got some hidden personal agenda to deal with. Here's an Idea.....If you don't like them......Don't use them....SIMPLES!! Do you have the same problem with the house, car, kitchen appliance you buy/  Do you always need to know the directors name and address? Move on please you're getting very boring!

I did see the postings about the other sails. That one has no case to answer his sails were measured, even if UKFA subsequently seem to disagree with who ever signed them. 

Measurers are not always perfect! I had an experience a few years ago. A well known international class had changed the way they measured sails (something to do with how they fixed the position of the mid-height measurment). Depending on whether the old or the new system was used there was a visible difference in the sailsmade to measure. A sailmaker friend therefore arrived at the championship with 2 mainsails, one to the old sysytem, one to the new. He asked the ISAF measure present how he was measuring the sails. Measurer was using old system, mainly because class had not informed him of new system.

Sailmaker and measurer went in to conclave as they re-read rules, measured both sails which both measured, (or not) depending on method used.

So - who measured sails, using which measurment documents, which interpretation...

Measurement issues - a Jury's nightmare

Dunno, I think the more interesting question is "when could the sailors have known the sails weren't legal?" if indeed they are definitively not legal.

When one considers the Merlin episode the illegality of the sails seems to have been widely publicised before the event, and no-one seems to have been in any doubt about it, therefore they were right to retire.

This one seems a bit more complicated. The website statement from the Fireball Measurer seems to postdate the event, and there seems to be at the least some evidence that the competitors had reason to suppose that the sails were legit and would pass measurement.

Personally I'd find it hard to convice someone of a gross breach of sportsmanship in those circumstances. I think an awful lot of people would be in trouble if they could get penalised for not yet having got round to having their perfectly legal sails measured. Come to think of it I'm not sure I've had my last set of Canoe rags measured yet.

There are a number of lessons from this, not the least of which being that Speed Sails need to considerably get their act together on clearing experimental design sails with measurers and it may be the FB association needs to work on communications.

Edited by JimC - 18 Feb 13 at 3:15pm

Originally posted by JimC Dunno, I think the more interesting question is "when could the sailors have known the sails weren't legal?"