You can’t be serious

Originally posted by Mark Jardine I think you should take a look into the theory behind this before dismissing it!

So Mark - why was this article listed under "Dinghy News"? 

Dinghy news is generally for racing reports, this stuff is clearly not legal for racing dinghies and I would think not of too much interest to dinghy cruisers.

The article suggests that it can reduce fuel consumption which is not a bad thing for power boats, but its placement in Dinghy News is perhaps inappropriate.
It could tempt the unscrupulous to buy and apply it - as the chances of being found out are minimal except perhaps at the very top level regattas.

Originally posted by JohnW Originally posted by Mark Jardine I think you should take a look into the theory behind this before dismissing it! So Mark - why was this article listed under "Dinghy News"?  Dinghy news is generally for racing reports, this stuff is clearly not legal for racing dinghies and I would think not of too much interest to dinghy cruisers. The article suggests that it can reduce fuel consumption which is not a bad thing for power boats, but its placement in Dinghy News is perhaps inappropriate. It could tempt the unscrupulous to buy and apply it - as the chances of being found out are minimal except perhaps at the very top level regattas.

I put it under Dinghy News as, if this works, then it would help for dinghies.

As for Rule 53: A boat shall not eject or release a substance, such as a polymer, or  have specially textured surfaces that could improve the character of
the flow of water inside the boundary layer.

So I look on the FAQs on the HySpeedKote website at
http://www.hyspeedkote.com/FAQ222.htm
I saw the point: HSK dries to a hard finish and is water insoluble.
Therefore they say it doesn't eject or release a substance, but is it a specially textured surface that could improve the character of the flow of water inside the boundary layer? I guess that's a question for ISAF. The closest I could find for this was this document on the ISAF website:
http://www.sailing.org/26708.php

Anyway, that was my thinking as to why it should be in dinghy news!

Erm, Mailspeed Marine are an advertiser with us and the article is marked as a Mailspeed Marine article pretty clearly!

Originally posted by Villan Can't you just tell them to do what other people have to do - "Buy an advert"? Same for Rooster - very thinly veiled adverts ...

They're not thinly veiled at all. Anything that comes from an organisation that isn't a club or class is a paid for ad, as I understand it. Anything from any shop should be treated as so. It's what helps pay for this website to run, along with the banner and side bar adverts. It's always been this way. I don't find it that intrusive, either.

Originally posted by alstorer Originally posted by Villan Can't you just tell them to do what other people have to do - "Buy an advert"? Same for Rooster - very thinly veiled adverts ... They're not thinly veiled at all. Anything that comes from an organisation that isn't a club or class is a paid for ad, as I understand it. Anything from any shop should be treated as so. It's what helps pay for this website to run, along with the banner and side bar adverts. It's always been this way. I don't find it that intrusive, either.

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