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    Posted: 31 Jan 06 at 11:43pm

So it's alright then if the 300's can do it so can anyone ....are there other classes where this is obvious ?..... our experience however with Topper is that they often DUPLICATE numbers with the Blaze and then have to reallocate new ones to the owners !!!!  Can't quite understand how this works or what 'advantage' this might involve but it has happened several times in recent years  ......

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is it really such a big problem, i mean laser did it right from teh otuset, there arent actually as many lasers out ther as the newest sail number says, and anyway, so long as RS know how many boats there are does it matter. I still believe that a fair resemblence of a class's strength is in its membership statistics and its event turnouts.
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a bit of googling suggests 490 might be the only one between 480 and 500
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I should remember, I sailed against him! He was probably too far ahead to see...

There still seems to be a jump tho. Damn, used to be able to get at a list on the RS site, but I'm not a member anymore and it won't let me in.



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Scottish Travellers 2004 Overall Results

Position Helm Sail Number Points
1 Ian Baillie 445 3
2 Andrew Grant 403 7
3 Eddie Griffiths 490 10
4 Ben Yeats 352 17
5 Garry Knott 476 19
6 Gavin Marshall 431 21
6 Neil Beveridge 415 21
8 Paul Barker 395 29
9 Angus Aitken 430 31
10 John Logan 327 32
10 Mark Henman 450 32
10 Steve Macdonald 474 32
13 David Masson 336 33
Well theres one of your missing numbers, maybe they all got lost up in Scotland
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Originally posted by nathan

Re. comments made by Rick and Rob.e, was there not a similar debate held on the forum about SMODs skipping sail numbers, only for Rikki (I belive) from RS to come along and categorically state that RS did not skip numbers. This seemingly contradicts Rob.e's conversation with LDC!!

Well, the 300 has had a max of about 6 boats a year recently, the suddenly the numbers jump by about 20! I loved my 300, so I'm not trying to diss them, but I was honestly told that on the phone by an RS employee, and the evidence is pretty clear. If anyone knows of a 300 numered between about 481 and 500 I'd be interested to hear.

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Originally posted by Blobby

Do I smell an MPS worlds coming on then???

ASAP

The owners voted; see Q37

http://www.mustoskiff.com/sub-pages/survey-details/survey-re sults-2005-full.htm

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> What Boats have

ISO and Buzz for two. Both got recognised ststus then crashed and couldn't keep it.
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What boats have Jim? I can't think of may UK origin SMOD minus the Topper. I dont think the any of the 'high perfomance' topper boats did nor any of the laser 0000's.

Re. comments made by Rick and Rob.e, was there not a similar debate held on the forum about SMODs skipping sail numbers, only for Rikki (I belive) from RS to come along and categorically state that RS did not skip numbers. This seemingly contradicts Rob.e's conversation with LDC!!
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Originally posted by Blobby

Do I smell an MPS worlds coming on then???

I'm sure they'd love to... but every UK origin SMOD that has achieved recognised status has pretty much immediately crashed and burned so it might be worth waiting a bit!
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